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.^[1] 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.

References

↑ List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.

Bibliography

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

External links

Somewhere in Berlin at the Internet Movie Database

The films of Gerhard Lamprecht

The Buddenbrooks (1923)
The House Without Laughter (1923)
The Other Woman (1924)
The Hanseatics (1925)
Slums of Berlin (1925)
Children of No Importance (1926)
People to Each Other (1926)
Sister Veronika (1927)
The Catwalk (1927)
Under the Lantern (1928)
The Old Fritz (1928)
The Man with the Frog (1929)
Emil and the Detectives (1931)
The Black Hussar (1932)
Just Once a Great Lady (1934)
A Day Will Come (1934)
Princess Turandot (1934)
Turandot, Princess of China (1935)
The Higher Command (1935)
One Too Many on Board (1935)
A Strange Guest (1936)
Madame Bovary (1937)
The Yellow Flag (1937)
The Gambler (1938)
Woman in the River (1939)
The Girl at the Reception (1940)
Clarissa (1941)
Diesel (1942)
Somewhere in Berlin (1946)
Sergeant Borck (1955)

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