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.
Unfortunately the movie The Berliner is not yet available on Disney Plus.
| Production | Heinz Rühmann | Producer |
| Writing | Günter Neumann | Writer |
| Directing | Robert A. Stemmle | Director |
| Production | Alf Teichs | Producer |
| Art | Gabriel Pellon | Production Design |
| Sound | Günter Neumann | Music |
| Sound | Hans Löhmer | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Gertraud Recke | Costume Design |
| Camera | Georg Krause | Director of Photography |
| Production | Bruno Michalk | Unit Manager |
| Editing | Walter Wischniewsky | Editor |
| Production | Martin Sternberg | Unit Manager |
| Sound | Werner Eisbrenner | Music |
| Production | Werner Drake | Production Manager |
