Irgendwo in Berlin (1946)

Drama

After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless... Gerhard Lamprecht built his reputation during the 1920s and '30s with films like Emil and the Detectives (1931, script Billy Wilder) and socially-critical Berlin films based on the drawings of Heinrich Zille. In Somewhere in Berlin-his first postwar film, made just months after the cessation of hostilities-he portrays the people of the shattered city with precision and psychological realism.

Updated May 26 2020

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FACTS

Runtime: 80 mins Rating: 6.3

Cast

Fritz Rasp

Waldemar Hunke

Lilli Schoenborn

Hans Leibelt

Herr Eckmann, artist

Paul Bildt

Preußischer General von Finck

Harry Hindemith

Paul Iller

Walter Bluhm

Karl "Kalle" Roper

Lotte Loebinger

Frau Steidel

Charles Brauer

Gustav Iller