Overview
- The two-part film airs on ZDF at 20:15 and 22:00 and is available to stream in the ZDF-Mediathek.
- Director Matti Geschonneck works from Hannah Hollinger’s adaptation of Oskar Maria Graf’s novel first published in 1947.
- Josef Hader stars as shoemaker Julius Kraus in a village-set story spanning 1918 to 1933 in provincial Bavaria.
- Early reviews praise the laconic storytelling, the ensemble cast, regional dialect, and an evocative choral-led score.
- Coverage flags explicit scenes of violence and emphasizes the production’s resonance with present political debates.