Ernst Thälmann (film)

Movie
Original title	Ernst Thalmann
Country of production	GDR
original language	German
Publishing year	1986
length	240 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Ursula Bonhoff , Georg Schiemann
script	Otto Bonhoff , Georg Schiemann, Erich Selbmann
production	DEFA on behalf of East German television
music	Karl-Ernst Sasse
camera	Peter Krause , Jürgen Lenz
cut	Anneliese Hinze-Sokolowa Lotti Mehnert
occupation
Helmut Schellhardt : Ernst Thälmann Christine Schorn : Rosa Thälmann Günther Grabbert : Wilhelm Pieck Peter Sodann : John Schehr Marian Kociniak : Marcel Cachin Hartmut Beer : Maurice Thorez Maxi Biewer : nurse Jürgen Reuter : Adolf Hitler Hans-Joachim Hegewald : Hermann Goering Arno Wyzniewski : Joseph Goebbels in other roles: Fred Delmare , Janina Hartwig , Jan Josef Liefers , Jaecki Schwarz , Jörg Schüttauf , Wolfgang Winkler , Helga Göring

Ernst Thälmann is a two-part television film made by DEFA in 1986. It was first broadcast on February 7, 1986 in the first program on GDR television .

action

The biographical film spans from May 1, 1929, the so-called Blutmai , on which police officers shot demonstrating Berlin workers, to February 7, 1933, the day on which the meeting of the KPD Central Committee took place in Ziegenhals , on the Thälmann last appeared as a speaker.

Lettering from the Ernst Thälmann film; Görlitz, Bergstrasse

production

Filming began in 1984 and took place in Görlitz and Wuppertal , among others . The lettering installed for the film is still there today.

criticism

"Historically inaccurate, incomplete and at the time of its creation already anachronistic heroic epic, which was treated by the SED party leadership as a main and state action."

- Lexicon of international film

DVD

The film was released on DVD on March 17, 2014 by Icestorm Entertainment .

Web links

• Ernst Thälmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Ernst Thalmann (1985); Detailed table of contents fernsehenderddr.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate of release for Ernst Thälmann . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, December 2013 (PDF; first part).
2. ^ Certificate of release for Ernst Thälmann . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, December 2013 (PDF; second part).
3. ↑ Shooting in Wuppertal for cinema and TV productions and documentaries. In: Filmstadt Wuppertal. Retrieved December 23, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Ernst Thalmann. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 22, 2019 .