Information
Release DateDecember 6, 1995
Runtime1h 39m
StatusReleased
ProductionArtus-Film, ARD + 1 more
LanguagesGerman
7.3
5 votesPopularity1
Synopsis
Hans Fallada tells in his published after the war novel "The drinker" the story of the agricultural wholesaler Erwin Sommer, who flees from his narrow bourgeois relations under the burdens of the new times in the kingdom of the king alcohol, whose liberty and independence promises prove a lie - the only truth of the alcohol. On behalf of the WDR television play Ulrich Plenzdorf has adapted Fallada's 1944/45 novel for a film adaptation by Tom Toelle with Harald Juhnke in the main role of Erwin Sommer.
Cast & Crew
Director
Tom Toelle
Featured Cast
Harald Juhnke
Erwin Sommer
Jutta Wachowiak
Magda Sommer
Deborah Kaufmann
Elinor
Eberhard Esche
Dr. Mansfeld
Christian Grashof
Lobedanz
