Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Robert A. Stemmle Director
- 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
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