Der Trinker (1995)

7.3/10 99 min Drama TV Movie

Overview

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

Harald Juhnke

Erwin Sommer

Deborah Kaufmann

Elinor

Eberhard Esche

Dr. Mansfeld

Christian Grashof

Lobedanz

Dietrich Körner

Dr. Stiebing

Thomas Neumann

Patient

Dietmar Huhn

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