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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.

Top Cast

  • Helmut Schellhardt

    Helmut Schellhardt

    Ernst Thälmann

  • Christine Schorn

    Christine Schorn

    Rosa Thälmann

  • Günter Grabbert

    Günter Grabbert

    Wilhelm Pieck

  • Peter Sodann

    Peter Sodann

  • Marian Kociniak

    Marian Kociniak

  • Hartmut Beer

    Hartmut Beer

  • Wilfried Pucher

    Wilfried Pucher

  • Hildegard Alex

    Hildegard Alex

  • Christian Balhaus

    Christian Balhaus

Overview

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.

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