Berlin '36

Berlin '36 (2009)

Nazi Germany 1936. Gretel Bergman is one of Hitler's best gold medal contenders. And she's Jewish.

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.

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  • Release Date: 2009-09-09
  • Runtime: 1h 40min
  • Director: Kaspar Heidelbach

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Cast

  • Karoline Herfurth

    Gretel Bergmann

  • Sebastian Urzendowsky

    Marie Ketteler

  • Axel Prahl

    Hans Waldmann

  • Robert Gallinowski

    Sigfrid Kulmbach

  • Thomas Thieme

    Hans von Tschammer und Osten

  • Johann von Bülow

    Karl Ritter von Halt

  • August Zirner

    Edwin Bergmann

  • Maria Happel

    Paula Bergmann

  • Franz Dinda

    Rudolph Bergmann

  • Leon Seidel

    Walter Bergmann

  • Marita Breuer

    Eleonore Ketteler

  • Otto Tausig

    Leo Löwenstein

  • Elena Uhlig

    Frau Vogel

  • Julie Engelbrecht

    Elisabeth „Lilly“ Vogt

  • John Keogh

    Avery Brundage

  • Klara Manzel

  • Martin Wißner

  • Matthias Redlhammer

  • Tomas Spencer

  • Adrian Zwicker

  • Angelika Bartsch

  • Harvey Friedman

  • Katrin Hansmeier

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