Berlin '36 (2009)
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.
- Released
- 2009-09-09
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Kaspar Heidelbach, Lothar Kurzawa
- TMDB rating
- 5.4/10 from 40 votes
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