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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.
Cast
Full credits →J
Jörg Gudzuhn
Hans Fallada
J
Jutta Wachowiak
Anna Fallada
K
Katrin Sass
Ursula Losch
C
Corinna Harfouch
Else-Marie Bukonje
U
Ulrike Krumbiegel
Anneliese
M
Marga Legal
Falladas Mutter
H
Hermann Beyer
Abteilungsleiter
C
Carl Heinz Choynski
W
Werner Dissel
Doktor
W
Werner Godemann
A
Aleksey Yakubov
W
Werner Kos
J
Joachim Lätsch
V
Viktor Mikhaylov
soviet officer
I
Iosif Ryklin
H
Herbert Sand
Siegfried Keller
F
Falk Rockstroh
A
Aleksandr Voevodin
C
Christine Poisl
F
Franziska Glöss-Ebermann
