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Der Trinker

7.319951h 39mMovieDramaTV Movie

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…

DirectorTom Toelle
WritersTom Toelle·Ulrich Plenzdorf
ProducerMartin Wiebel

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Cast · Directed by Tom Toelle

HJHarald Juhnke
Harald Juhnke
Erwin Sommer
JW
Jutta Wachowiak
Magda Sommer
DKDeborah Kaufmann
Deborah Kaufmann
Elinor
EEEberhard Esche
Eberhard Esche
Dr. Mansfeld
CGChristian Grashof
Christian Grashof
Lobedanz
DKDietrich Körner
Dietrich Körner
Dr. Stiebing
TNThomas Neumann
Thomas Neumann
Patient
MC
Mey Lan Chao
Else
VS
Veit Schubert
DHDietmar Huhn
Dietmar Huhn
RM
Raidar Müller-Elmau
SP
Stefan Parschauer

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Der Trinker hasn't started streaming in Canada yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around January 24, 1996. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.