Somewhere in Berlin explained

Somewhere in Berlin (de|'''Irgendwo 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.^[1] 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 – „Kapitän“
• Hans Leibelt – Eckmann
• Paul Bildt – Birke
• Fritz Rasp – Waldemar
• Walter Bluhm – Onkel Kale
• – Frau Steidel

Plot

A group of children play in the ruins of Berlin after World War II. One boy's father comes home from a POW camp. The boy is saddened to see his father as a hopeless, powerless man, but the children eventually give the father fresh hope by persuading him to clean up his badly bomb-damaged garage business.

Bibliography

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

Notes and References

1. http://www.insidekino.de/DJahr/DDRAlltimeDeutsch.htm List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.