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