Jeder stirbt f%C3%BCr sich allein (1962 film)

Jeder stirbt fr sich allein Everyone Dies Alone is a 1962 West German made for television political drama film based on a bestselling novel by Hans Fallada, itself based on the true story of a working class couple, Otto and Elise Hampel, who committed acts of civil disobedience against the government of Nazi Germany and were executed. Directed by former German Resistance member Falk Harnackwhose brother, sisterinlaw and cousins were executed during the Nazi regimeit was the first screen adaptation of Falladas novel.

In addition to the 1962 teleplay, there have been three subsequent screen adaptations of Falladas novel a television miniseries entitled Jeder stirbt fr sich allein broadcast in East Germany in 1970 a feature film in 1975, released in English in 1976 as Everyone Dies Alone and a television miniseries in the Czech Republic in 2004.The 1962 teleplay, the first screen adaptation of Falladas book, was directed by Falk Harnack, who had been active in the German Resistance against the Nazism and the Third Reich. His own arrest and trial led to acquittal, but several members of his family and many friends were arrested and executed, including his brother, Arvid and his sisterinlaw, Mildred Harnack, a translator and professor of literature, who had visited Fallada in 1934. ........

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