Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class

Directed by Kurt Maetzig
1954    2h 4mBiography, Drama,
6.4
This historical-biographical film begins in the first days of November 1918 on the western front. News comes to the soldiers of a revolutionary uprising in Kiel. Young Thälmann, a soldier against his will, would like to join the expanding conflict on the side of his comrades in Hamburg. As the revolution becomes threatened by the betrayal of the right-wing Social Democrats and the splintering of the working class, he nevertheless tries unremittingly to unite the workers. The reactionaries grow ever stronger and the neediness of ordinary people multiplies. In this dire situation, the Hamburg police commissioner would like to block the unloading of a ship full of provisions that were sent from Petrograd as a message of solidarity. But Thälmann prevails in unloading it. The high point and conclusion of the first part of the Thälmann films is established at the Hamburg Uprising in October 1923.

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Cast of Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class

  • Günther SimonErnst Thälmann
  • Hans-Peter MinettiFiete Jansen
  • Erich FranzArthur Vierbreiter
  • Erika DunkelmannMartha Vierbreiter
  • Johannes ArpeHöhn
  • Raimund SchelcherKrischan Daik
  • Karla RunkehlÄnne Harms
  • Gerhard BienertOtto Kramer
  • Robert TröschKuddel Riemöller
  • Wolf KaiserMajor Zinker
  • Werner PetersHauptmann Quadde
  • Martin FlörchingerKarl Liebknecht
  • Steffie SpiraClara Zetkin
  • Hans FlösselScheidemann
  • Walter E. FußKarl Borns
  • Rudolf KlixWillbrandt
  • Hans KleringAsmussen
  • Gerhard LauHein Heber
  • Sergei KalininSowjetischer Kapitän
  • Werner PledathHauck
  • Karl KendziaAdolf Wahlkeit
  • Carla HoffmannRosa Thälmann
  • Judith HarmsRosa Luxemburg
  • Peter SchornLenin
  • Karl WeberFriedrich Ebert
  • Oswald FoerdererMartin Bünse
  • Lotte LoebingerEmma Kramer
  • Wilfried OrtmannHannes Harms
  • Hans-Edgar StecherPeter Brinkmann
  • Gerd JägerJosef Wissarionowitsch Stalin
  • Karl Eugen LehnkeringGustav Stresemann
  • Joe Münch-HarrisGustav Noske
  • Arthur PieckWilhelm Pieck
  • Hermann DieckhoffDr. Matthies
  • Erich BrauerFreese
  • Wilhelm GröhlBrandler
  • Otto Ernst TickardtMahlmann
  • Willi SchwabeBerber
  • Harry PreußTarnow
  • Nico TuroffBrandler
  • Ursula RöschmannFrau Harms
  • Kurt DunkelmannTrenow
  • Günther PolensenBauer
  • Sonja HaackerFreese
  • Wilhelm Otto EckhardtPuttkamp
  • Frithjof RüdeGeneral Vogt
  • Adolf Peter HoffmannAlland
  • Erich MirekKarl
  • Alfred BohlWalter
  • Karl BrenkHinnerk
  • Oskar NeugebauerEddi
  • Paul FunkPaul
  • Leonid RitterSowjetischer Matrose
  • Alexej PlesnizowVertreter der Petrograder Gewerkschaften
  • Charlotte KüterFrau mit Revolver
  • Jean BrahnPolizist
  • Walter LendrichHäftling
  • Willi NarlochZK-Vertreter
  • Harry StudtOberst im Geheimdienst
  • Axel TriebelGeneral
  • Harro ten BrookGeneral
  • Hans FiebrandtFrontsoldat
  • Wilhelm Hinrich HoltzGeschäftsführer im Kaiserhof
  • Wolf von BeneckendorffRussischer Emmigrant
  • Ludwig SachsSpitzel
  • Dorothea ThiesingGemüsefrau
  • Friedrich GnaßHauswirt
  • Rudolf FleckGefängniswärter
  • Kurt SperlingGewehrzähler
  • Eberhard KratzReichswehroffizier
  • Hans RoseErster Arbeiter
  • Carl LangeZweiter Arbeiter
  • Hermann StetzaDritter Arbeiter
  • Kurt MaetzigDirector
  • Willi BredelWriter
  • Michael Tschesno-HellWriter

 

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