Ernst Thälmann (1986)
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.
Cast
Helmut Schellhardt
Ernst Thälmann
Christine Schorn
Rosa Thälmann
Günter Grabbert
Wilhelm Pieck
Peter Sodann
Marian Kociniak
Hartmut Beer
Wilfried Pucher
Hildegard Alex
Iris Bohnau
Manfred Borges
Margot Busse
Bruno Carstens
Fred Delmare
Werner Dissel
Emil Kirdorf
Friedhelm Eberle
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