Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary movement at home is threatened by the betrayal of the Social Democrats and fissures in the working class, Thälmann calls on his fellow soldiers to put down their weapons and unite with the workers in the communist struggle at home. Thälmann’s qualms about which side he is fighting on continue, but when the local police attempt to prevent a shipment of provisions and supplies from reaching the people in Petrograd, he intervenes and the ship is unloaded. With this moment of clarity, Thälmann continues to follow his political convictions and joins the workers at the Hamburg uprising in October 1923.
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Cast
Günther Simon
Hans-Peter Minetti
Erich Franz
Erika Dunkelmann
Johannes Arpe
Raimund Schelcher
Karla Runkehl
Gerhard Bienert
Robert Trösch
Wolf Kaiser
Werner Peters
Martin Flörchinger
Steffie Spira
Hans Flössel
Walter E. Fuß
Rudolf Klix
Hans Klering
Gerhard Lau
Sergei Kalinin
Werner Pledath
Karl Kendzia
Carla Hoffmann
Judith Harms
Peter Schorn
Karl Weber
Oswald Foerderer
Lotte Loebinger
Wilfried Ortmann
Hans-Edgar Stecher
Gerd Jäger
Karl Eugen Lehnkering
Joe Münch-Harris
Arthur Pieck
Hermann Dieckhoff
Erich Brauer
Wilhelm Gröhl
Otto Ernst Tickardt
Willi Schwabe
Harry Preuß
Nico Turoff
Ursula Röschmann
Kurt Dunkelmann
Günther Polensen
Sonja Haacker
Wilhelm Otto Eckhardt
Frithjof Rüde
Adolf Peter Hoffmann
Erich Mirek
Alfred Bohl
Karl Brenk
Oskar Neugebauer
Paul Funk
Leonid Ritter
Alexej Plesnizow
Charlotte Küter
Jean Brahn
Walter Lendrich
Willi Narloch
Harry Studt
Axel Triebel
Harro ten Brook
Hans Fiebrandt
Wilhelm Hinrich Holtz
Wolf von Beneckendorff
Ludwig Sachs
Dorothea Thiesing
Friedrich Gnaß
Rudolf Fleck
Kurt Sperling
Eberhard Kratz
Hans Rose
Carl Lange
Hermann Stetza
