
89 minutes
12/31/1948
Otto, a feckless Everyman, tries to adjust to the postwar travails of his defeated nation. Stymied by black-market profiteers and government bureaucrats, Otto begins fantasizing about a happier life at the end of that ever-elusive rainbow.

Gert Fröbe
as Otto Normalverbraucher

Tatjana Sais
as Ida Holle
Ute Sielisch
as Eva Wandel

Aribert Wäscher
as Anton Zeithammer

O.E. Hasse
as Der Reaktionär

Hans Deppe
as Emil Lemke
Werner Oehlschläger
as Raisonneur

Erik Ode
as Stimme

Karl Schönböck
as Rundfunkreporter

Herbert Hübner
as Herr Bollmann
Alfred Schieske
as Herr Schneidewind
Rita Paul
as Sängerin

Brigitte Mira
as Dirne

Georgia Lind
as Dirne

Clemens Hasse
as Pfarrer
Herbert Weißbach
Kurt Weitkamp

Franz-Otto Krüger
Erwin Biegel
Marianne Prenzel
Otto Matthies
Walter Strasen

Georg August Koch
Franz Pollandt
Walter Schramm

Valy Arnheim
Walter Bechmann
Alfred Beierle

Reinhold Bernt

Albert Bessler

Walter Bluhm

Erich Dunskus
Joe Furtner
Kurt Getke

Herwart Grosse
Karl Hannemann
Helmut Heyne
Hugo Kalthoff

Alfred Maack
Edgar Pauly
Hans Schille
Otz Tollen

Ilse Trautschold
Theodor Vogeler

Erik von Loewis
Werner Völger
Georg Völkel
Alexander Welbat

Eduard Wenck