Somewhere in Berlin

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. 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.