''Somewhere in Berlin'' (german: 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.List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.
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made in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Cast

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– 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 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.

External links

* 1946 films East German films 1940s German-language films Films set in Berlin Films directed by Gerhard Lamprecht German children's films German black-and-white films German drama films 1946 drama films 1940s German films {{1940s-Germany-film-stub