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This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody riots on May 1, 1929 in Berlin, in which police officers shot at demonstrating workers, and ends with February 7, 1933, when Thälmann appeared as a speaker at the illegal meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany in goat neck. This period was marked by the struggle of the Communists against the ever stronger National Socialists and the rise of Adolf Hitler.
Directors
Studio
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, Fernsehen der DDR
Original Language
German
Cast
Full credits →H
Helmut Schellhardt
Ernst Thälmann
C
Christine Schorn
Rosa Thälmann
G
Günter Grabbert
Wilhelm Pieck
P
Peter Sodann
M
Marian Kociniak
H
Hartmut Beer
W
Wilfried Pucher
H
Hildegard Alex
C
Christian Balhaus
M
Maxi Biewer
E
Eckhard Bilz
I
Iris Bohnau
M
Manfred Borges
F
Fritz Bornemann
M
Margot Busse
B
Bruno Carstens
F
Fred Delmare
W
Werner Dissel
Emil Kirdorf
G
Günter Drescher
F
Friedhelm Eberle
