Der Trinker (1995)
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.
Release Date: 1995-12-06
Runtime: 99 minutes
Director: Tom Toelle
Top Cast
- Harald Juhnke as Erwin Sommer
- Jutta Wachowiak as Magda Sommer
- Deborah Kaufmann as Elinor
- Eberhard Esche as Dr. Mansfeld
- Christian Grashof as Lobedanz
- Dietrich Körner as Dr. Stiebing
- Thomas Neumann as Patient
- Mey Lan Chao as Else
- Veit Schubert as
- Dietmar Huhn as
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