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