Movie

Dark Days (1999)

• May 5, 1999
• 1h 30m

• 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.

Director

Margarethe von Trotta

Writers

Margarethe von Trotta

Starring

Suzanne von Borsody, Stefanie Stappenbeck, Steffen Groth