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Somewhere in Berlin
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Wikipedia article
'Somewhere 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.[http://www.insidekino.de/DJahr/DDRAlltimeDeutsch.htm List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.] 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
* Gustav Iller
* Hans Trinkhaus Willi, sein Freund
* Siegfried Utecht Kapitn
* Hans Leibelt Eckmann
* Paul Bildt Birke
* Fritz Rasp Waldemar
* Walter Bluhm Onkel Kale
* 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.
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