"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
as Otto Normalverbraucher
Tatjana Sais
as Ida Holle
Ute Sielisch
as Eva Wandel
Aribert Wäscher
as Anton Zeithammer
O.E. Hasse
as Der Reaktionär
Hans Deppe
as Emil Lemke
Werner Oehlschläger
as Raisonneur
Erik Ode
as Stimme
Karl Schönböck
as Rundfunkreporter
Herbert Hübner
as Herr Bollmann
Alfred Schieske
as Herr Schneidewind
Rita Paul
as Sängerin
Brigitte Mira
as Dirne
Georgia Lind
Clemens Hasse
as Pfarrer
Herbert Weißbach
as
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
Robert A. Stemmle
Director
Heinz Rühmann
Producer
Günter Neumann
Writer
Alf Teichs
Music
Georg Krause
Director of Photography
Gabriel Pellon
Production Design
Gertraud Recke
Costume Design
Bruno Michalk
Unit Manager
Martin Sternberg
Werner Drake
Production Manager
Walter Wischniewsky
Editor
Werner Eisbrenner
Hans Löhmer
Sound