Hammer or Anvil

This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Reichstag Fire Trial trumped-up charges of having set the Reichstag on fire were brought against him. At the trial Dimitrov exposed the machinations of the Nazis and turned from a defendant into an accuser. Central to the story is the face-to-face political duel between Dimitrov and Goering. Dimitrov's interactions with ordinary Germans, the memories of his wife Lyuba Ivoshevich, and the meetings with his mother Parashkeva alternate with documentary shooting scenes from the time of Nazi Germany.

Country:

Bulgaria,

Soviet Union,

East Germany

Genre:

Drama,

Crime

Duration:

157 minutes

Year:

1972

Director:

Christo Christov

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Company:

DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme,

Mosfilm,

Boyana Film

Cast:

Georgi Dimitrov

Hermann Georing

Diels

Nebe

Erika

Crew:

Writer

Writer

Director of Photography

Writer

Novel