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.

Screenplay

Georg Schiemann

Screenplay

Erich Selbmann

Screenplay

Otto Bonhoff

Director

Georg Schiemann

Status

Released

Release date

07/02/1986

Original language

German