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