Somewhere in Berlin

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Somewhere in Berlin (German: Irgendwo in Berlin) is a film produced in the Soviet occupation zone of Allied-occupied Germany, the area that later became East Germany. It was released in 1946, and was the third DEFA film. It sold 4,179,651 tickets.^[1] It was part of the group of rubble films made in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Cast

• Harry Hindemith – Iller
• Hedda Sarnow – Frau Iller
• Charles Brauer [de] – Gustav Iller
• Hans Trinkhaus – Willi, sein Freund
• Siegfried Utecht – „Kapitän“
• Hans Leibelt – Eckmann
• Paul Bildt – Birke
• Fritz Rasp – Waldemar
• Walter Bluhm – Onkel Kale
• Lotte Loebinger [de] – Frau Steidel

Plot

A group of children play bravely in the ruins of Berlin after World War II. One boy's father comes home from a POW camp. The boy is saddened by his father, who is a hopeless, powerless man, but the children eventually give the father fresh hope by persuading him to clean up his badly bomb-damaged garage.

References

Bibliography

• Shandley, Robert. Rubble Films: German Cinema in the Shadow of the Third Reich. Temple University Press, 2010.

External links

• Irgendwo in Berlin at IMDb