Der Trinker
movie
View on VideBits →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
Tom Toelle · Hans Fallada · Dietmar Huhn · Eberhard Esche · Jutta Wachowiak · Dietrich Körner · Mey Lan Chao · Deborah Kaufmann · Harald Juhnke · Christian Grashof · Ulrich Plenzdorf · Veit Schubert · Thomas Neumann
Studios & networks
ARD · Artus-Film · ORF