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