Der Trinker

Story

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.

Director

Tom Toelle

Writers

Tom Toelle, Ulrich Plenzdorf, Hans Fallada

Language

German

Country

Austria, Germany

Release date

6 December 1995

Ensemble

Cast

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  Harald Juhnke

  Erwin Sommer

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  Jutta Wachowiak

  Magda Sommer

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  Deborah Kaufmann

  Elinor

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  Eberhard Esche

  Dr. Mansfeld

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  Christian Grashof

  Lobedanz

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  Dietrich Körner

  Dr. Stiebing

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  Thomas Neumann

  Patient

• Mey Lan Chao

  Else

• Veit Schubert

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  Dietmar Huhn

• Raidar Müller-Elmau

• Stefan Parschauer