''Wolf Among Wolves'' (German:''Wolf unter Wölfen'') is a 1965 East German television series, based on the 1938 novel '' Wolf Among Wolves'' by

Hans Fallada Hans Fallada (; born Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen; 21 July 18935 February 1947) was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include '' Little Man, What Now?'' (1932) and ''Every Man Dies Alone'' ...

. It was aired in four parts on DFF. The series portrays life in the 1920s

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of the

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.Campbell p.89-90 It was the first East German television series to air in

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Partial cast

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as Wolfgang Pagel *

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as Rittmeister von Prackwitz * Herbert Köfer as Gutsverwalter von Studmann *

Annekathrin Bürger Annekathrin Bürger (born 1937) is a German stage, film and television actress. Bürger was a prominent actress in East Germany appearing in a number of films made by the state-run DEFA film studios as well as in television series such as ''Wolf ...

as Petra Ledig * Agnes Kraus as Frau Thumann * Marga Legal as Frau Pagel * Friedel Nowack as Minna * Else Wolz as Mutter Krupaß * Ingeborg Naß as Valuten-Vamp * Erik S. Klein as von Zecke

References

Bibliography

* Campbell, Russell. ''Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema''. University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.

External links

* German drama television series 1960s German television miniseries Television shows based on German novels 1965 German television series debuts 1965 German television series endings Television series set in the 1920s Television in East Germany German-language television shows Adaptations of works by Hans Fallada {{Germany-tv-prog-stub