Berlin 36

Name: Berlin 36
Released: September 16, 2011
Duration: 100 min
Rating: 45

2011

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Corinth Films | Release Date: September 16, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: Based on the true story of Gretel Bergmann who unwittingly became the biggest threat to the Nazi Party in 1936. Berlin was hosting the summer Olympic Games and Gretel was one of Germany's best gold medal contenders. She was also Jewish. Her skill and ethnicity undermined the Nazi belief that Aryans were the superior race, so the GermanBased on the true story of Gretel Bergmann who unwittingly became the biggest threat to the Nazi Party in 1936. Berlin was hosting the summer Olympic Games and Gretel was one of Germany's best gold medal contenders. She was also Jewish. Her skill and ethnicity undermined the Nazi belief that Aryans were the superior race, so the German authorities schemed to replace Gretel with another woman -- but "she" had a secret that, if uncovered, could be even more embarrassing to the Nazis. (Corinth Releasing)… Expand

Director: Kaspar Heidelbach

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 100 min

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Nick Schager

Sep 13, 2011

The burgeoning relationship between both the athletes, bonding over a kindred "otherness," is handled tastefully by director Kaspar Heidelbach, though the lack of new insights on the subject of National Socialism's wickedness ultimately reduces a well-staged film to a historical footnote. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

Sep 13, 2011

The film, well made in every way, smartly focuses on an unlikely friendship between Gretel and the athlete who ultimately replaced her -- a high jumper who was later revealed to be a man! Read full review

Derek Elley

Sep 13, 2011

The picture sports a strong lead cast but is diminished by TV-style helming and production qualities. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Sep 22, 2011

Whatever the facts of the case, Berlin 36 doesn't clear the bar for dramatic impact. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Sep 15, 2011

Tasteful to a fault, Berlin 36 turns real-life controversy into disappointingly tepid drama. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Sep 12, 2011

Excepting a momentary late-film lapse into eye-rolling double-exposure tomfoolery, the film is as aesthetically bland as a film could conceivably be, the perfunctory camerawork imbuing the proceedings with an ugly, indistinctive gloss. Read full review

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