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Name: Der Trinker
Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Released: 1995-12-06
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Harald Juhnke, Jutta Wachowiak, Deborah Kaufmann, Eberhard Esche, Christian Grashof

Der Trinker (1995) is not currently listed on any UK streaming, rental, or purchase service. Last verified on 4 May 2026 by ScreenSearch.

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.

Film
1995
99 min
★ 7.3/10 TMDB
Drama
TV Movie

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Der Trinker

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Cast & crew

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DirectorTom Toelle

WritersTom Toelle, Ulrich Plenzdorf

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