Fallada: The Last Chapter

Story

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.

Director

Roland Gräf

Writers

Roland Gräf, Helga Schütz

Language

German

Country

East Germany

Release date

11 May 1988

Ensemble

Cast

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  Jörg Gudzuhn

  Hans Fallada

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  Jutta Wachowiak

  Anna Fallada

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  Katrin Sass

  Ursula Losch

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  Corinna Harfouch

  Else-Marie Bukonje

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  Ulrike Krumbiegel

  Anneliese

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  Marga Legal

  Falladas Mutter

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  Hermann Beyer

  Abteilungsleiter

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  Carl Heinz Choynski

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  Werner Dissel

  Doktor

• Werner Godemann

• Peter-Mario Grau

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  Aleksey Yakubov