Schindler's List
1993 · Drama · History
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Film / 1972
Despite It All!
Directed by
Günter Reisch
October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich in vain sends its last reserves to the slaughter. The working class is in a rebellious mood; the uprising of Kiel’s sailors against war and militarism sets off a call for revolution led by Liebknecht. On November 9, Liebknecht declares the Free Socialist Republic of Germany. But pro-Kaiser military and right wing Social …
The story
October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich in vain sends its last reserves to the slaughter. The working class is in a rebellious mood; the uprising of Kiel’s sailors against war and militarism sets off a call for revolution led by Liebknecht. On November 9, Liebknecht declares the Free Socialist Republic of Germany. But pro-Kaiser military and right wing Social Democrats oppose him.
Cast
Horst SchulzeKarl Liebknecht
Lyudmila KasyanovaSophie Liebknecht
Ute IlmanVera Liebknecht
Zofia MrozowskaRosa Luxemburg
Mikhail UlyanovV.I. Lenin
Adolf Fischer
Ulrich AnschützErich Habersat
Jörg Gillner
Albert Hetterle
Erika Dunkelmann
Jutta HoffmannKäthe Schreiner
Burkhard Mann
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Fred DelmareWaldemar Lehmann
Rolf Ludwig
Harry HindemithGeneral von Hohenberg
Walter PlatheJugendlicher
Jaecki SchwarzFähnrich
Helga GöringFrau
Rüdiger JoswigArbeiter
Christoph BeyerttSoldat
Erich Mirek
Siegfried Weiß
Manfred Zetzsche
Horst-Tanu Margraf
Albert Garbe
Peter Reusse
Horst Hiemer
Stefan Lisewski
Juliane Korén
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
Ekkehard Schall
Adolf Peter Hoffmann
Otto Lang
Werner Godemann
Harald Halgardt
Gerd Michael Henneberg
Günter Junghans
Martin Trettau
Carl Heinz Choynski
Norbert Christian
Arthur Jopp
Volkmar Kleinert
Irma Münch
Raimund Schelcher
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