''Somewhere in Berlin'' (german: Irgendwo in Berlin) is a film produced in the

Soviet occupation zone The Soviet Occupation Zone ( or german: Ostzone, label=none, "East Zone"; , ''Sovetskaya okkupatsionnaya zona Germanii'', "Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany") was an area of Germany in Central Europe that was occupied by the Soviet Union as a ...

Allied-occupied Germany Germany was already de facto occupied by the Allies from the real fall of Nazi Germany in World War II on 8 May 1945 to the establishment of the East Germany on 7 October 1949. The Allies (United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and Franc ...

, the area that later became

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

. It was released in 1946, and was the third

DEFA DEFA (''Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft'') was the state-owned film studio of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) throughout the country's existence. Since 2019, DEFA's film heritage has been made accessible and licensable on the PRO ...

film. It sold 4,179,651 tickets.List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films.
/ref> It was part of the group of rubble films made in the aftermath of the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

Cast

* Harry Hindemith – Iller * Hedda Sarnow – Frau Iller * – Gustav Iller * Hans Trinkhaus – Willi, sein Freund * Siegfried Utecht – „Kapitän“ *

Hans Leibelt Hans Leibelt (11 March 1885 in Leipzig, German Empire – 3 December 1974 in Munich, West Germany) was a German film actor. Selected filmography * ''Heimliche Sünder'' (1926) * '' The False Prince'' (1927) * ''The Man in Search of His Mur ...

– Eckmann *

Paul Bildt Paul Hermann Bildt (19 May 1885 – 13 March 1957) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1910 and 1956. He was born and died in Berlin, Germany. Selected filmography * ''Devil in Silk'' (1956) * '' Ich suche D ...

– Birke *

Fritz Rasp Fritz Heinrich Rasp (13 May 1891 – 30 November 1976) was a German film actor who appeared in more than 100 films between 1916 and 1976. His obituary in ''Der Spiegel'' described Rasp as "the German film villain in service, for over 60 years." ...

– Waldemar *

Walter Bluhm Walter Bluhm (5 August 1907 – 2 December 1976) was a German film and television actor. Partial filmography * '' Glückspilze'' (1935) - Georg Lewaldt * ''Hermine und die sieben Aufrechten'' (1935) * '' The Beaver Coat'' (1937) - Schreiber ...

– 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