Ernst Th%C3%A4lmann (film)

Ernst Thlmann is an East German film in two parts about the life of the German Communist leader Ernst Thlmann, directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Gnther Simon in the title role. The first picture, Ernst Thlmann Sohn seiner Klasse Son of his Class, was released in 1954. It was followed by the 1955 sequel Ernst Thlmann Fhrer seiner Klasse Leader of his Class.

When Hamburg faces an attack by Zinkers forces, as part of the Kapp Putsch, the workers organize a general strike after laborers are shot by the rebels, Thlmann ignores the bourgeoisie Social Democrats who reject violence, ambushes the Freikorps and captures their officers. The Social Democrat Police Senator Hhn frees them after they lightheartedly promise not to use violence.Thlmann makes a speech in the USPD congress, calling to unite with the KPD, when the Soviet steamship Karl Liebknecht, loaded with wheat for the citys unemployed, reaches the port. Hhn sends Quadde, now a police captain, to prevent the distribution of the cargo, but after a standoff the police retreat. Thlmann visits Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin in Moscow with other German communists. ........

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