Der Trinker
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.
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- Cast:
- Harald Juhnke , Jutta Wachowiak , Deborah Kaufmann , Eberhard Esche , Christian Grashof , Dietrich Körner , Thomas Neumann
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Reviews
Simply A Masterpiece
It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
The first must-see film of the year.