Der Trinker
1995, German. Directed by Tom Toelle.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- German
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- Released
- 6 December 1995
- Country
- Austria, Germany
- Written by
- Tom Toelle, Ulrich Plenzdorf
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Der Trinker (1995) was directed by Tom Toelle and stars Harald Juhnke, Jutta Wachowiak, Deborah Kaufmann.