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.
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Trailer
The Ballad of Berlin (1948) Original Trailer [HD]
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
Alfred Schieske
Herr Schneidewind
Rita Paul
Sängerin
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