Somewhere in Berlin

Somewhere in Berlin
Directed by	Gerhard Lamprecht
Written by	Gerhard Lamprecht
Starring	Charles Brauer, Hans Trinkaus, Siegfried Utecht, Harry Hindemith, Hedda Sarnow
Music by	Erich Einegg
Cinematography	Werner Krien
Release dates	1946
Running time	85 min.
Country	East Germany
Language	German

Somewhere in Berlin (German:Irgendwo in Berlin) is an East German film. It was released in 1946, and was the third DEFA film. It sold 4,179,651 tickets. It was part of the group of rubble films made in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Cast

• Mady Rahl as Ilse Bock
• Rotraut Richter as Edeltraud Panse
• Carl-Heinz Schroth as Dr. Erich Horn, Rechtsanwalt
• Ernst Waldow as Gustav Kluge, Bäckermeister
• Grethe Weiser as Paula Kluge
• Lotte Werkmeister as Witwe Bock, Plättstubenbesitzerin
• Hans Stiebner as August Wudicke
• Adolf Fischer as Emil, Bäckergeselle
• Paul Westermeier as Panse, Portier
• Kurt Seifert as Hermann Schultze
• Ilse Fürstenberg as Irma Schultze
• Ellen Bang as Mi
• Kurt Waitzmann as Kuhlmann, Architekt
• Ewald Wenck as Herr Semmelweiss
• Walter Lieck as Roderich
• Friedrich Langhammer as Willy, Bäckerlehrling
• Margarete Kupfer as Frau Krawutschke
• Wolfgang Kieling as Bürolehrling bei Dr. Horn

Plot

A group of children play bravely in the ruins of Berlin after World Wart 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.

Bibliography

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

External links

• Somewhere in Berlin at IMDb