Ernst Thälmann

Ernst Thälmann
Description

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.

Stars

Helmut Schellhardt, Christine Schorn, Günter Grabbert, Peter Sodann, Marian Kociniak

Runtime

230 minutes

Release Date

February 7, 1986

Rating

8.0/10 (1 votes)

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