
Plot
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.
Trailer
Cast

Gert Fröbe
Otto Normalverbraucher

Tatjana Sais
Ida Holle

Ute Sielisch
Eva Wandel

Aribert Wäscher
Anton Zeithammer

O.E. Hasse
Der Reaktionär

Hans Deppe
Emil Lemke

Werner Oehlschläger
Raisonneur

Erik Ode
Stimme

Karl Schönböck
Rundfunkreporter

Herbert Hübner
Herr Bollmann

Alfred Schieske
Herr Schneidewind

Rita Paul
Sängerin

Brigitte Mira
Dirne

Georgia Lind
Dirne

Clemens Hasse
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