Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1962 film)

Jeder stirbt für sich allein
Courtroom scene
Based onEvery Man Dies Alone
by Hans Fallada
Screenplay byRobert A. Stemmle
Falk Harnack
Directed byFalk Harnack
StarringAlfred Schieske
Edith Schultze-Westrum
Music byPeter Sandloff
Country of originGermany
Original languageGerman
Production
CinematographyHeinz Pehlke
Running time100 minutes
Production companySender Freies Berlin
Original release
Release19 July 1962 (1962-07-19)

Jeder stirbt für sich allein (Everyone Dies Alone) is a 1962 West German made for television political drama film based on a best-selling 1947 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 Harnack—whose brother, sister-in-law and cousins were executed during the Nazi regime—it was the first screen adaptation of Fallada's novel.