Berlin '36 (2009)
Nazi Germany 1936. Gretel Bergman is one of Hitler's best gold medal contenders. And she's Jewish.
100 min
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.
- Release date
- September 10, 2009
- Country of origin
- Germany
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Cast
- 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
- Otto Tausig as Leo Löwenstein
- Elena Uhlig as Frau Vogel
- Julie Engelbrecht as Elisabeth „Lilly“ Vogt
- John Keogh as Avery Brundage
- Klara Manzel
- Tomas Spencer
- Adrian Zwicker
- Angelika Bartsch
- Harvey Friedman
- Peter Clös as Kioskbesitzer
Crew
- Kaspar Heidelbach · Director
- Lothar Kurzawa · Writer
- Eric Friedler · Writer
- Doris J. Heinze · Producer
- Jörn Klamroth · Producer
- Gerhard Schmidt · Producer
- Arno Steffen · Composer
- Achim Poulheim · Cinematographer
- Hedy Altschiller · Editor
- Anja Dihrberg-Siebler · Casting director
- Götz Weidner · Production designer