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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.Read moreLess
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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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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Karoline HerfurthGretel Bergmann
Sebastian UrzendowskyMarie Ketteler
Axel PrahlHans Waldmann
Robert GallinowskiSigfrid Kulmbach
Thomas ThiemeHans von Tschammer und Osten
Johann von BülowKarl Ritter von Halt
August ZirnerEdwin Bergmann
Maria HappelPaula Bergmann
Franz DindaRudolph Bergmann
Leon SeidelWalter Bergmann
Marita BreuerEleonore KettelerExplore the crew
- Director
- Kaspar Heidelbach
- Screenplay
- Lothar Kurzawa
- Director of Photography
- Achim Poulheim
- Writer
- Eric Friedler
- Producer
- Doris J. Heinze
- Producer
- Jörn Klamroth
- Producer
- Gerhard Schmidt
- Editor
- Hedy Altschiller