All of the other players are excellent, in particular Regine Zimmermann as the delightful, spontaneous but resilient Mieze, and Frank Seppler as the careening, unpredictable Reinhold. Like Biberkopf, we also live in a society where huge, anonymous forces are working to crush everything honest, straightforward and admirable in human beings, to systematically extinguish every vestige of genuine individuality. Franz has just been ejected from a car. You are not big, you are not small, you are a joy. Gas light may go out, electric light, too.
People get up when the alarm clock rattles, a new day has begun.
If it was April 8th yesterday, it is the 9th today, if it was Sunday, it is now Monday. The year has not changed, nor the month, but a change has occurred nevertheless. The world has rolled ahead. The sun has risen. It is not certain what this sun is.