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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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Harald Juhnke
Erwin Sommer
Jutta Wachowiak
Magda Sommer
Deborah Kaufmann
Elinor
Eberhard Esche
Dr. Mansfeld
Christian Grashof
Lobedanz
Dietrich Körner
Dr. Stiebing
Thomas Neumann
Patient
Mey Lan Chao
Else
Veit Schubert
Dietmar Huhn
Raidar Müller-Elmau
Stefan Parschauer
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