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Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class is a film of genre Drama directed by Kurt Maetzig with Günther Simon
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class (1954)
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Ernst Thälmann is an East German film in two parts about the life of the German Communist leader Ernst Thälmann, directed by Kurt Maetzig and starring Günther Simon in the title role. The first picture, Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse (Son of his Class), was released in 1954. It was followed by the 1955 sequel Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse (Leader of his Class).
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After fellow soldier Johannes Harms reports that a revolution has broken out at home, Thälmann - who leads a revolutionary cell on the Western Front - and his friend Fiete Jansen rebel against their officers, Zinker and Quadde, and desert. Harms dies in a shelling. In Berlin, the American capitalist Mr. McFuller demands to crush the Spartacists. Zinker, now a member of the Freikorps, murders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Thälmann hears of it and promises their sacrifice will not be in vain. Jansen falls in love with Harms' daughter, Änne.Actors
Günther Simon
(Ernst Thälmann)
Wolf Kaiser
(Major Zinker)
Werner Peters
(Hauptmann Quadde)
Raimund Schelcher
(Krischan Daik)
Erika Dunkelmann
(Martha Vierbreiter)
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