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.

• Georg SchiemannWriter
• Erich SelbmannWriter
• Otto BonhoffWriter
• Georg SchiemannDirector
• Ursula BonhoffDirector

• Helmut SchellhardtErnst Thälmann
• Christine SchornRosa Thälmann
• Günter GrabbertWilhelm Pieck
• Peter SodannCast
• Marian KociniakCast
• Hartmut BeerCast
• Wilfried PucherCast
• Hildegard AlexCast
• Christian BalhausCast
• Maxi BiewerCast
• Eckhard BilzCast
• Iris BohnauCast