Fallada: The Last Chapter

Fallada: The Last Chapter

6.21988· 101 min· East Germany
Drama

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.

Director
Roland Gräf
Country
East Germany
Awards
3 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

JG

Jörg Gudzuhn

JW

Jutta Wachowiak

KS

Katrin Sass

CH

Carl Heinz Choynski

Hermann Beyer

Hermann Beyer

EB

Eckhard Becker

WG

Werner Godemann

Falk Rockstroh

Falk Rockstroh

Angelika Böttiger

Angelika Böttiger

UK

Ulrike Krumbiegel

Corinna Harfouch

Corinna Harfouch

WD

Werner Dissel