Margarethe von Trotta's TV movie focuses on a woman whose life is destroyed by her addiction to alcohol. Angela Rinser is a happy mother of two children and quite successful in her job as bilingual secretary. The sudden death of her husband changes everything. She starts drinking and loses her job. Her children Felicitas and Max try to hush up their social decline for years because they don't want to live in a foster home.
Suzanne von Borsody
as Angela Rinser
Stefanie Stappenbeck
as Felicitas
Steffen Groth
as Fabian Groll
Konstantin Wecker
as Rinser
Siggi Kautz
as Max
András Fricsay
as Schmanke
Rolf Kanies
as Rolf
Pamela Knaack
as Alexandra Schmanke
Arved Birnbaum
as
Wolfgang Packhäuser
as
Stefanie Schimanski
as
Therese Hämer
as
