Release Date
1986-02-07
Status
Released
Original Title
Ernst Thälmann
Runtime
3h 50m
Original Language
DE
Production Countries
East Germany, Germany
Production Companies
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, Fernsehen der DDR
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.
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