Overview
Just before the Berlin Wall is built, a young East German worker tries his personal and professional luck as a barkeep in West Berlin. A realistic love story set during Germany’s post-war economic miracle, which here does not fulfil its bright promises.
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Setting
Set in Berlin
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Music
Music by Franz Grothe
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Heinz Hölscher
Details
- Directors
- Writer
- Gerd OelschlegelScreenplay
- Original title
- Zwei unter Millionen
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 12, 1961
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
Production
Cast
Hardy KrügerKarl genannt Kalle
Loni von FriedlChristine
Walter GillerPaulchen
Joseph OffenbachLohmann- Ilse FürstenbergFrau Lohmann
Fritz TillmannPetersen
Ludwig LinkmannBienert- Harry GillmannWilhelm
- Lore HartlingHelga
Maly Delschaft-
Reinhold BerntSchliemke- Manfred Meurer
Claus Tinney- Traute Bengen
Henriette Gonnermann
Oscar Sabo- Siegfried Dornbusch
- Heinz G. Diesing
- Tobias Pagel
- Hellmut Grube
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