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Berlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works in the advertising department of a cigarette factory by day and drifts through bars, brothels and artist studios with his wealthy and debauched friend Labude by night. When Fabian meets the beautiful and confident Cornelia, he manages to shed his pessimistic attitude for a brief moment and falls in love. Not long after, he falls victim to the great wave of layoffs sweeping the city, plunging him back into a depression, while Cornelia’s career as an actress is taking off thanks to her wealthy boss and admirer – an arrangement that Fabian finds difficult to accept. But it’s not just his world that is falling apart; all of Germany is about to self-destruct. Veteran German director Dominik Graf (Beloved Sisters) wowed audiences at the Berlin Film Festival with this dazzling adaptation of Erich Kästner’s classic of Weimar literature, set amid the twilight hedonism of pre-Nazi Germany.
Original Release
08/05/2021
US Release
02/11/2022
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tom Schilling | Jakob Fabian |
Albrecht Schuch | Stephan Labude |
Saskia Rosendahl | Cornelia Battenberg |
Michael Wittenborn | Justizrat Labude |
Petra Kalkutschke | Frau Fabian |
Elmar Gutmann | Herr Fabian |
Aljoscha Stadelmann | Produzent Makart |
Anne Bennent | Baroness Ruth Reiter |
Meret Becker | Irene Moll |
Eva Medusa Gühne | Frau Hohlfeld |
Directors
Writers
Dominik Graf, Erich Kästner, Constantin Lieb
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tom Schilling | Jakob Fabian |
Albrecht Schuch | Stephan Labude |
Saskia Rosendahl | Cornelia Battenberg |
Michael Wittenborn | Justizrat Labude |
Petra Kalkutschke | Frau Fabian |
Elmar Gutmann | Herr Fabian |
Aljoscha Stadelmann | Produzent Makart |
Anne Bennent | Baroness Ruth Reiter |
Meret Becker | Irene Moll |
Eva Medusa Gühne | Frau Hohlfeld |
Julia Preuß | Kyra |
Lukas Rüppel | Weckherlin |
Michael Hanemann | Professor |
Oliver Reinhard | Direktor Breitkopf |
Jörg-Uwe Schröder | Dr. Moll |
Brian Völkner | Kollege Fischer |
Thomas Dehler | Kriminalkommissar Donath |
Luise Aschenbrenner | Die Kulp |
Lena Baader | Die Selow |
Julia Blankenburg | Buchhalterin |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Wiebke Andresen | Producer |
Christoph Daniel | Producer |
Christoph Fisser | Producer |
Gerda Leopold | Producer |
Christine Rau | Producer |
Felix von Boehm | Producer |
Heinz Pehlke | Producer |