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Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes43%
Metacritic45/100
Audiences rate it 18 points higher than critics do.
40 audience votes
Key crew
- Kaspar HeidelbachDirector
- Lothar KurzawaScreenplay
- Eric FriedlerWriter
Cast
- 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 Ketteler
- Otto TausigLeo Löwenstein
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Themes
berlin, germanynazisportsolympic gamesbased on true storyfemale athletetrack and fieldolympic athlete1930s