The Berliner (1948)

Director: Robert A. Stemmle

Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow.

Cast

Gert Fröbe

Otto Normalverbraucher

Tatjana Sais

Ida Holle

Ute Sielisch

Eva Wandel

Aribert Wäscher

Anton Zeithammer

O.E. Hasse

Der Reaktionär

Hans Deppe

Emil Lemke

Werner Oehlschläger

Raisonneur

Erik Ode

Stimme

Karl Schönböck

Rundfunkreporter

Herbert Hübner

Herr Bollmann