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.
as Hans Fallada
as Anna Fallada
as Ursula Losch
as Else-Marie Bukonje
as Anneliese
as Falladas Mutter
as Abteilungsleiter
as Doktor
as soviet officer
as Siegfried Keller
