Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny come...read more
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Long before he played the corpulent Goldfinger, German actor Gert Froebe was a scarecrow-skinny comedian. In Berliner Ballade, Froebe makes his screen debut as Otto, a feckless Everyman who 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. Director R. A. Stemmle doesn't have to strive for pathos: he merely places his gangly star amidst the ruins of a bombed-out Berlin, and the point is made for him. Filmed in 1948, Berliner Ballade was later released in the U.S. as The Berliner.
Production Company: Comedia-Film,
Country: Germany
Genre: Comedy
Runtime: 1h 29m
Not available for United States
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The Favourite
The Artist
La La Land
Shakespeare in Love
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Poor Things
All About My Mother
My Fair Lady
Gigi
Annie Hall
Tom Jones
Volver
Chicago
The Apartment
Cyrano de Bergerac
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