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.
Stars: Harald Juhnke, Jutta Wachowiak, Deborah Kaufmann, Eberhard Esche, Christian Grashof, Dietrich Körner
Crew: Tom Toelle (Writer), Ulrich Plenzdorf (Writer), Martin Wiebel (Producer), Tom Toelle (Director), Hans Fallada (Novel), Achim Poulheim (Director of Photography)
Country: Austria, Germany
Language: Deutsch
Studio: Artus-Film, ARD, ORF
Runtime: 99 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Dec 06, 1995
IMDb: 3.5
