Hammer or Anvil

This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Reichstag Fire Trial trumped-up charges of having set the Reichstag on fire were brought against him. At the trial Dimitrov exposed the machinations of the Nazis and turned from a defendant into an accuser. Central to the story is the face-to-face political duel between Dimitrov and Goering. Dimitrov's interactions with ordinary Germans, the memories of his wife Lyuba Ivoshevich, and the meetings with his mother Parashkeva alternate with documentary shooting scenes from the time of Nazi Germany.

• Wolfgang EbelingWriter
• Willi BrücknerWriter
• Pavel VezhinovWriter
• Ivan RadoevWriter
• Christo ChristovDirector

• Stefan GetsovGeorgi Dimitrov
• Viliam PolónyiHermann Georing
• Frank ObermannDiels
• Hannjo HasseNebe
• Micaela KreißlerErika
• Martin FlörchingerDr. Buenger
• Hans Hardt-HardtloffKluge
• Günther SimonPastor
• Gerd Michael HennebergReich Minister Konstantin von Neurath
• Horst GieseReich Minister Joseph Goebbels
• Hans LuckeCast
• Holger MahlichCast