This biographical film is set in 1937, with Fallada suffering the effects of living under a microscope. The film details his decline, as he is intermittently imprisoned and threatened in order to motivate him to write for the Fatherland. Even the attention of his kind, patient wife and loving children begin to feel oppressive to him. This is one of the few films to take a serious, in-depth look at the tribulations of a creative artist pulled in all different directions by the real world.

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Cast

Jörg Gudzuhn

Hans Fallada

Jutta Wachowiak

Anna Fallada

Katrin Sass

Ursula Losch

Corinna Harfouch

Else-Marie Bukonje

Ulrike Krumbiegel

Anneliese

Marga Legal

Falladas Mutter

Hermann Beyer

Abteilungsleiter

Carl Heinz Choynski

Werner Dissel

Doktor

Aleksey Yakubov

Joachim Lätsch

Viktor Mikhaylov

soviet officer