Ernst Thälmann

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