Jeder stirbt für sich allein (1962 film)
| Jeder stirbt für sich allein | |
|---|---|
Courtroom scene | |
| Based on | Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada |
| Screenplay by | Robert A. Stemmle Falk Harnack |
| Directed by | Falk Harnack |
| Starring | Alfred Schieske Edith Schultze-Westrum |
| Music by | Peter Sandloff |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Original language | German |
| Production | |
| Cinematography | Heinz Pehlke |
| Running time | 100 minutes |
| Production company | Sender Freies Berlin |
| Original release | |
| Release | 19 July 1962 |
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.