Dark Days (1999)

6.3/10 • 90 min • Drama TV Movie

Overview

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.

Cast

Suzanne von Borsody

Stefanie Stappenbeck

Steffen Groth

Konstantin Wecker

Rinser

Rolf Kanies

Arved Birnbaum

Wolfgang Packhäuser

Therese Hämer

Dorothea Walda

Walter Hess

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