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Der Trinker

1995 · 99 min

A slow, sobering descent into addiction, carried by a raw lead performance and a quiet sense of doom.

Directed by
Tom Toelle
Genres
Drama, Tv movie
Starring
Harald Juhnke, Jutta Wachowiak, Deborah Kaufmann
Overview
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.

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Directed by
Tom Toelle
Genres
Drama, Tv movie
Starring
Harald Juhnke, Jutta Wachowiak, Deborah Kaufmann
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • addiction
  • isolation
  • identity
  • grief
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour2
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, tv movie
Directed by
Tom Toelle
Written by
Tom Toelle, Ulrich Plenzdorf
Starring
Harald Juhnke, Jutta Wachowiak, Deborah Kaufmann, Eberhard Esche, Christian Grashof, Dietrich Körner, Thomas Neumann, Mey Lan Chao
Music
Jürgen Knieper
Cinematography
Achim Poulheim
Runtime
99 min
Country
Austria, Germany
Languages
German

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