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.
Ratings
IMDb7/10
5 audience votes
Key crew
- Tom ToelleWriter
- Ulrich PlenzdorfWriter
- Tom ToelleDirector
- Jürgen KnieperOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Harald JuhnkeErwin Sommer
- Jutta WachowiakMagda Sommer
- Deborah KaufmannElinor
- Eberhard EscheDr. Mansfeld
- Christian GrashofLobedanz
- Dietrich KörnerDr. Stiebing
- Thomas NeumannPatient
- Mey Lan ChaoElse
- Veit SchubertCast
- Dietmar HuhnCast
- Raidar Müller-ElmauCast
- Stefan ParschauerCast
Stills
Themes
based on novel or bookalcoholismalcoholic