Synopsis
This biographical film is set in 1937, with Fallada suffering the effects of living under a microscope. The film details his decline, as he is intermittently imprisoned and threatened in order to motivate him to write for the Fatherland. Even the attention of his kind, patient wife and loving children begin to feel oppressive to him. This is one of the few films to take a serious, in-depth look at the tribulations of a creative artist pulled in all different directions by the real world.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
5 audience votes
Key crew
- Roland GräfDirector
- Roland GräfWriter
- Helga SchützWriter
Cast
- Jörg GudzuhnHans Fallada
- Jutta WachowiakAnna Fallada
- Katrin SassUrsula Losch
- Corinna HarfouchElse-Marie Bukonje
- Ulrike KrumbiegelAnneliese
- Marga LegalFalladas Mutter
- Hermann BeyerAbteilungsleiter
- Carl Heinz ChoynskiCast
- Werner DisselDoktor
- Werner GodemannCast
- Peter-Mario GrauCast
- Aleksey YakubovCast