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Ernst Thälmann (1986)

Ernst Thälmann (1986)

Drama History
Release Date: 1986, February 7
Directors: Georg Schiemann, Ursula Bonhoff
Countries: Germany, East Germany
Production: DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, Fernsehen der DDR
Cast: Christine Schorn, Peter Hladik, Günter Grabbert, Werner Dissel, Birgit Schneider, Helmut Schellhardt

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.