Before sunrise. Hauptmann G.

Gerkhart Hauptmann - a popular German writer, playwright and poet learned wide fame not only in Europe, but also in Russia already at the beginning of the 20th century.

Drama "Before sunrise" tells about a farmer family who got rich at Selling coal.

Hoffmann Krause will soon have an heir. To help a pregnant sister, Elena returns to the parental house and is horrified: financial prosperity led the Krause family to degeneration and alcoholism. Suddenly, Hoffmann visits a friend of youth - Alfred Lot - a convinced teetotaler and intellectual, with whom Elena will be able to break out of the hated village.