Berlinger

Berlinger (1975)

DramaAdventure

A fictional, non-chronological account of the life of the scientist, adventurer and industrialist Lukas Berlinger. The key dates and central events include Berlinger's birth in 1914, his friendship with Johannes Roeder, who was the same age, his marriage to Marlit in the early 1930s and Roeder's joining the NSDAP in 1936. As a chemist and "scientist important to the war effort", Berlinger was not required to go to the front during the Second World War, but it was slowly discovered that he was helping persecuted people to escape to Switzerland. Pressure from the Gestapo cost Marlit her life, and Berlinger fled to South America. It was not until 1968 that he returned to the western part of Germany. He meets Roeder again, who is now a senator and has become rich as a "building tycoon", and meets Maria, a teacher almost 30 years his junior, who looks strikingly similar to Marlit.

Directors: Bernhard Sinkel, Alf Brustellin.

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	Martin Benrath as Lukas Berlinger
	Hannelore Elsner as Maria / Marlit
	Peter Ehrlich as Johannes Roeder
	Tilo Prückner as Laski
	Martin Lüttge as Pfeiffer
	Elisabeth Volkmann as Halm
	Max Mairich as
	Evelyn Künneke as
	Lina Carstens as
	Benno Hoffmann as
	Walter Ladengast as
	Hugo Lindinger as Pfarrer Paul
	Alfred Edel as
	Uli Steigberg as
	Dan van Husen as
	Helmut Brasch as
	Florian Halm as
	Wichart von Roëll as
	Claus Dieter Clausnitzer as
	Michael Strixner as
	Alfons Scharf as
	Dagobert Walter as
	Wilhelm Meyer as
	Heinz Klopp as

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