Der Trinker
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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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Harald Juhnke
Erwin Sommer
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Schtonk!
Jutta Wachowiak
Magda Sommer
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Deborah Kaufmann
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Dietmar Huhn
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Stefan Parschauer
Tom Toelle Director · Ulrich Plenzdorf Writer Hans Fallada Author
First release December 6, 1995 · Produced in Austria, Germany · Production ARD, ORF
Production
Artus-Film
Production
ARD
Production
ORF
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Austria · Germany
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · December 6, 1995
TV · ARD
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