
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
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
Robert A. Stemmle
Günter Neumann
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