Fabian, or Going to the Dogs

Tom Schilling stars as Jakob Fabian in "Fabian, or Going to the Dogs" (2021).

"Despite it all, life was a most interesting occupation" ~ adopted from Erich Kastner's novel, "Fabian" tells the story of earnest writer and man about town, Jakob Fabian, in late Weimar Berlin. Through a turbulent relationship with a rising film star, his friendship with a rich, idealistic young intellectual, Fabian's tragedy is seen against the larger tragedy of Berlin and Germany, on the slide towards Nazism.