Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the British Academy Film Awards (1950)
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Filming locations
Filmed in Berlin
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Setting
Set in Berlin
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Music
Music by Werner Eisbrenner
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Georg Krause
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Günter NeumannWriter
- Original title
- Berliner Ballade
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- December 31, 1948
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
Production
Cast
Gert FröbeOtto Normalverbraucher
Tatjana SaisIda Holle- Ute SielischEva Wandel
Aribert WäscherAnton Zeithammer
O.E. HasseDer Reaktionär
Hans DeppeEmil Lemke- Werner OehlschlägerRaisonneur
Erik OdeStimme
Karl SchönböckRundfunkreporter
Herbert HübnerHerr Bollmann- Alfred SchieskeHerr Schneidewind
- Rita PaulSängerin
Brigitte MiraDirne
Georgia LindDirne- Clemens HassePfarrer
- Herbert Weißbach
- Kurt Weitkamp
Franz-Otto Krüger- Erwin Biegel
- Marianne Prenzel
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