

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.
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
User score
2 votes
Released
May 5, 1999
1h 30m
German

Suzanne von Borsody
Angela Rinser

Stefanie Stappenbeck
Felicitas

Steffen Groth
Fabian Groll

Konstantin Wecker
Rinser
Siggi Kautz
Max
András Fricsay
Schmanke

Rolf Kanies
Rolf
Pamela Knaack
Alexandra Schmanke

Arved Birnbaum

Wolfgang Packhäuser
Stefanie Schimanski

Therese Hämer

Dorothea Walda

Walter Hess
Andreas Windhuis
Martin Wiebel
Karina Schieck