Berlin '36
Nazi Germany 1936. Gretel Bergman is one of Hitler's best gold medal contenders. And she's Jewish.
5.4(40) 2009-09-09 100 minDramaHistory
Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was replaced by the Nazi regime by an athlete later discovered to be a man. The film is based on a true story and was released in Germany on September 10, 2009. Reporters at Der Spiegel challenged the historical basis for many of the events in the film, pointing to arrest records and medical examinations indicating German authorities did not learn Dora Ratjen was male until 1938.
DirectorKaspar Heidelbach
ScreenplayLothar Kurzawa
WriterEric Friedler
ProducerJörn Klamroth
ProducerDoris J. Heinze
ProducerGerhard Schmidt
Cast & characters
Karoline Herfurth
as Gretel Bergmann
Sebastian Urzendowsky
as Marie Ketteler
Axel Prahl
as Hans Waldmann
Robert Gallinowski
as Sigfrid Kulmbach
Thomas Thieme
as Hans von Tschammer und Osten
Johann von Bülow
as Karl Ritter von Halt
August Zirner
as Edwin Bergmann
Maria Happel
as Paula Bergmann
Franz Dinda
as Rudolph Bergmann
Leon Seidel
as Walter Bergmann
Marita Breuer
as Eleonore Ketteler
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Otto Tausig
as Leo Löwenstein
Elena Uhlig
as Frau Vogel
Julie Engelbrecht
as Elisabeth „Lilly“ Vogt
John Keogh
as Avery Brundage
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Klara Manzel
as —
Martin Wißner
as —
Matthias Redlhammer
as —
Tomas Spencer
as —
Adrian Zwicker
as —
Angelika Bartsch
as —
Harvey Friedman
as —
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Katrin Hansmeier
as —
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Julia Lukas
as Zuschauerin
