Movielogr
Der Trinker (1995)
Directed by Tom Toelle
Overview
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.
Length 99 minutes
Actors
Harald Juhnke | Jutta Wachowiak | Deborah Kaufmann | Eberhard Esche | Christian Grashof | Dietrich Körner | Thomas Neumann | Mey Lan Chao | Veit Schubert | Dietmar Huhn | Raidar Müller-Elmau | Stefan Parschauer