Ernst Thälmann

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.

Country:

East Germany,

Germany

Genre:

Drama,

History

Duration:

230 minutes

Year:

1986

Director:

Georg Schiemann

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Company:

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme,

Fernsehen der DDR

Cast:
Helmut Schellhardt

Ernst Thälmann

Christine Schorn

Rosa Thälmann

Günter Grabbert

Wilhelm Pieck

Peter Sodann

Marian Kociniak

Crew:
Peter Krause

Director of Photography

Jürgen Lenz

Director of Photography

Georg Schiemann

Director

Ursula Bonhoff

Director

Otto Bonhoff

Writer