101 minutes
5/11/1988
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.
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
Marga Legal
as Falladas Mutter
Hermann Beyer
as Abteilungsleiter
Carl Heinz Choynski
Werner Dissel
as Doktor
Werner Godemann
Peter-Mario Grau
Aleksey Yakubov
Werner Kos
Joachim Lätsch
Viktor Mikhaylov
as soviet officer
Iosif Ryklin
Herbert Sand
as Siegfried Keller
Falk Rockstroh
Aleksandr Voevodin
Christine Poisl
Ulrike Stanelle
Franziska Glöss-Ebermann
Werner Kanitz
Klaus Tilsner
Angelika Böttiger
Max Grashof
Sieglinde Grunwald
Frank Haberland
Roland Kuchenbuch
Wolfgang Lindner
Wolfgang Lohse
Peter Pauli
Harald Popig
Thomas Rühmann
Heinz Schröder
Linde Sommer
Hannes Stelzer
Gabriele Zion