Man of Straw (1972)
- Directed by
- Herbert Wise
- Genre
- miniseries, drama television series
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 6 episodes
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This British drama series adapts Heinrich Mann's novel about a man who rises through society by groveling to authority. It follows his life during the last years of imperial Germany.
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What happens
Man of Straw is a British television drama series which first aired on BBC 2 between 30 January and 5 March 1972. It is an adaptation of the 1918 novel Der Untertan (The Underling) by Heinrich Mann. It takes place during the final years of Wilhelmine Germany. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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