Robert A. Stemmle
Director
The Berliner (1948)
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.
Keywords: tmdb.east-berlin, tmdb.west-berlin, tmdb.post-war-germany, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.flashback, imdb.citizen, imdb.voice-over-narration + 25 more, imdb.berlin-germany, imdb.song, imdb.singing, imdb.war-veteran, imdb.soldier, imdb.singer, imdb.politics, imdb.politician, imdb.place-name-in-title, imdb.black-market, imdb.future, imdb.ex-soldier, imdb.devastation, imdb.destruction, imdb.destitution, imdb.confusion, imdb.civilian, imdb.ballad, imdb.average-man, imdb.1940s, imdb.post-world-war-two, imdb.anti-war, imdb.poverty, aspectratio.1-37-1, awards.festival-venice-winner
Production Companies: Comedia-Film GmbH
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Runtime: 89 min.
Released: Dec. 31, 1948
Status: Released
Certification: NR / 7+