Dark Days (1999)
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.
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
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Suzanne von Borsody as Angela Rinser |
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Stefanie Stappenbeck as Felicitas |
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Steffen Groth as Fabian Groll |
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Konstantin Wecker as Rinser |
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Siggi Kautz as Max |
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András Fricsay as Schmanke |
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Rolf Kanies as Rolf |
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Pamela Knaack as Alexandra Schmanke |
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Arved Birnbaum as |
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Wolfgang Packhäuser as |
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Stefanie Schimanski as |
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Therese Hämer as |
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Dorothea Walda as |
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Walter Hess as |
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Andreas Windhuis as |
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Martin Wiebel as |
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Karina Schieck as |
| Directing | Margarethe von Trotta | Director |
| Camera | Franz Rath | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Corina Dietz | Editor |
| Production | Sonja Goslicki | Producer |
| Writing | Margarethe von Trotta | Writer |
| Sound | Tom Dokoupil | Music |