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Fallada: The Last Chapter (1988)

Fallada: The Last Chapter (1988)

Drama
Release Date: 1988, May 11
Directors: Roland Gräf
Countries: East Germany
Production: DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Cast: Corinna Harfouch, Ulrike Krumbiegel, Katrin Sass, Hermann Beyer, Viktor Mikhaylov, Jörg Gudzuhn, Jutta Wachowiak, Werner Dissel, Herbert Sand, Marga Legal

Overview:

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.