Ernst Thälmann
230 mins
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.
Georg Schiemann
Writer
Peter Krause
Director of Photography
Jürgen Lenz
Director of Photography
Erich Selbmann
Writer
Otto Bonhoff
Writer
Anneliese Hinze-Sokolowa
Editor
Lotti Mehnert
Editor
Karl-Ernst Sasse
Music
Georg Schiemann
Director
Ursula Bonhoff
Director