
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 FröbeOtto Normalverbraucher
Tatjana SaisIda HolleUte SielischEva Wandel
Aribert WäscherAnton Zeithammer
O.E. HasseDer Reaktionär
Hans DeppeEmil LemkeWerner OehlschlägerRaisonneur
Erik OdeStimme
Karl SchönböckRundfunkreporter
Herbert HübnerHerr BollmannAlfred SchieskeHerr SchneidewindRita PaulSängerin
Brigitte MiraDirne
Georgia LindDirneClemens HassePfarrer