Released:
1988-05-11

Overview:
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.

Director:
Roland Gräf

Runtime:
1h 41min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Jörg Gudzuhn
  as
  Hans Fallada
• 
  Jutta Wachowiak
  as
  Anna Fallada
• 
  Katrin Sass
  as
  Ursula Losch
• 
  Corinna Harfouch
  as
  Else-Marie Bukonje
• 
  Ulrike Krumbiegel
  as
  Anneliese