Ernst Thälmann
Ernst Thälmann
Release: 1986-02-07
·Runtime: 230m
Drama
History
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.
Production Countries
East Germany
Germany
Production Companies
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Fernsehen der DDR
Cast
Manfred Borges
Renate Geißler
Janina Hartwig
Jan Josef Liefers
Iris Bohnau
Arno Wyzniewski
Hildegard Alex
Klaus Gehrke
Albert Hetterle
Petra Hinze
Jalda Rebling
Gerald Schaale
Erik Veldre
Wolfgang Winkler
Günter Wolf
Günter Junghans
Reinhard Michalke
Evelyn Opoczynski
Andreas Schmidt-Schaller
Alfred Struwe
Margot Busse
Horst Kotterba
Jürgen Trott
Hanns-Jörn Weber
Marian Kociniak
Friedhelm Eberle
Matthias Freihof
Wolfgang Greese
Jürgen Reuter
Bruno Carstens
Monika Hetterle
Hans-Peter Reinecke
Hansjürgen Hürrig
Walter Plathe
Jürgen Zartmann
Christine Schorn
as Rosa Thälmann
Fred Delmare
Gert Gütschow
Werner Dissel
as Emil Kirdorf
Annemone Haase
Helmut Schellhardt
as Ernst Thälmann
Jörg Schüttauf
Peter Sodann
Wilfried Pucher
Helga Göring
Willi Schrade
Gerd Staiger
Hartmut Beer
Detlef Gieß
Frank-Otto Schenk
Günter Grabbert
as Wilhelm Pieck
Stefan Lisewski
Jaecki Schwarz
Peer-Uwe Teska