

5 votes
1988
1h 41m
This biographical film is set in 1937, with Fallada suffering the effects of living under a microscope. The film details his decline, as he is intermittently imprisoned and threatened in order to motivate him to write for the Fatherland. Even the attention of his kind, patient wife and loving children begin to feel oppressive to him. This is one of the few films to take a serious, in-depth look at the tribulations of a creative artist pulled in all different directions by the real world.
Directed by Roland Gräf

Jörg Gudzuhn
Hans FalladaJutta Wachowiak
Anna Fallada
Katrin Sass
Ursula Losch
Corinna Harfouch
Else-Marie Bukonje
Ulrike Krumbiegel
Anneliese
Marga Legal
Falladas Mutter
Hermann Beyer
Abteilungsleiter
Carl Heinz Choynski

Werner Dissel
DoktorWerner Godemann
Peter-Mario Grau

Aleksey Yakubov
Werner Kos

Joachim Lätsch

Viktor Mikhaylov
soviet officer
Iosif Ryklin
Herbert Sand
Siegfried Keller
Falk Rockstroh

Aleksandr Voevodin
Christine Poisl
Status
Released
Release date
May 11, 1988
Budget
—
Revenue
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Language
German