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Berlin 36 is a film of genre Drama with Karoline Herfurth
Berlin 36 (2009)
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Themes Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Sports films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Athletics films, Films about the Olympic Games, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Rating62%
Berlin 36 is a 2009 German film telling the fate of Jewish track and field 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, based on a true story, 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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The athlete Gretel Bergmann wins the high jump championships in the United Kingdom. For the Nazi racial laws prevented her continuing her training in Germany, being a Jew, her father had sent her to England, where she could live more safely and continue her sporting career.Actors
Karoline Herfurth
(Gretel Bergmann)
Sebastian Urzendowsky
(Marie Ketteler)
Axel Prahl
(Hans Waldmann)
Julie Engelbrecht
(Elisabeth „Lilly“ Vogt)
Thomas Thieme
(Hans von Tschammer und Osten)
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