Dark Days

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

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