
Der Trinker
Drama · TV Movie
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.
Top Cast


Harald Juhnke
Harald Juhnke
Erwin Sommer
Harald Juhnke
Erwin Sommer


Jutta Wachowiak
Jutta Wachowiak
Magda Sommer
Jutta Wachowiak
Magda Sommer


Deborah Kaufmann
Deborah Kaufmann
Elinor
Deborah Kaufmann
Elinor


Eberhard Esche
Eberhard Esche
Dr. Mansfeld
Eberhard Esche
Dr. Mansfeld


Christian Grashof
Christian Grashof
Lobedanz
Christian Grashof
Lobedanz


Dietrich Körner
Dietrich Körner
Dr. Stiebing
Dietrich Körner
Dr. Stiebing


Thomas Neumann
Thomas Neumann
Patient
Thomas Neumann
Patient
Mey Lan Chao
Mey Lan Chao
Else
Mey Lan Chao
Else
Veit Schubert
Veit Schubert
Veit Schubert


Dietmar Huhn
Dietmar Huhn
Dietmar Huhn
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