, 1h54 Directed byGünter Reisch GenresDrama ThemesPolitical films ActorsAlbert Hetterle, Erika Dunkelmann, Siegfried Weiss, Hans Finohr, Adolf Fischer, Werner Dissel Roles Paul Schreiner Rating72% The film opens in Berlin in 1914, as Germany is preparing for World War I. Liebknecht (Schulze) receives a call from a fellow lawyer and revolutionary, Mr. Rauch, that documents have been found proving the German heavy arms industry's secret involvement in the buildup to the war. He brings these documents to a meeting of the Reichstag, accusing Gustav Krupp and his company of bribing officials to release military secrets. In addition to this, Krupp and his company wrote to ask the French media to state that the French military has twice as much artillery as they actually possess so that they may provoke a surge in militarism. Afterward, while celebrating a friend's wedding, Liebknecht learns of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, recognizing that this is the war the German imperialists were seeking. However, the resources for war still need to be approved. Liebknecht immediately begins campaigning among the public, denouncing the war as a means to secure profit for the capitalists. In an SPD party meeting, Liebknecht is one of only fourteen members to vote against the war credits. In the subsequent Reichstag meeting, he votes with the party discipline in favor of the war credits, to the public's surprise. He announces in the party meetings that he will no longer yield to party discipline and will stand by his anti-militarist principles even if the party leadership will not do the same. Liebknecht is the only one of the Reichstag — including 111 SPD representatives — to vote against the war loans, resulting in a number of death threats and work bans. Despite his immunity as a Reichstag member, Liebknecht is called to serve on the front as a sapper. It is here that he writes his 1915 manifesto, "The main enemy is at home!" The manifesto is passed among his fellow soldiers on the front before returning home. While he is away, Paul Schreiner, whose wedding Liebknecht attended earlier in the film, dies on the front. This leaves his wife Käthe to raise their newborn child alone and make Liebknecht's manifesto public.
, 1h20 Directed byKurt Jung-Alsen GenresWar, Adventure, Spy ThemesSpy films, Political films ActorsAlbert Hetterle, Günther Simon, Rudolf Ulrich, Helga Göring, Adolf Fischer, Kurt Jung-Alsen Roles Oberst Rybin Rating60% Peu avant la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le gruppenführer Upitz sait que la guerre est bientôt terminée. Il cherche à tirer profit de ce moment et accepte une offre des Américains. Il obtiendra l'impunité s'il leur remet les archives secrètes de la Gestapo qui sont cachés à Meißen, le long de l'Elbe. Elles regroupent toutes les données sur les agents présents en Union soviétique et dans les Balkans. Mais le contre-espionnage soviétique est aussi à la recherche de ces archives, Upitz les mène vers une fausse piste.
Wilhelm Lehmann is informed that he will receive the Order of the Banner of Labor on his sixty-fifth birthday, for being the best worker in the most successful chemical plant in the country. However, it is soon made clear that all his grown up children have other plans for the day, and none of them can arrive to honor their father and their mother Auguste. But, after a series of comical mistakes that lead to utter pandemonium, all the sons and daughters eventually appear to greet Wilhelm as he is awarded the Order. The whole family drinks the traditional May wine, as they have done in every year.
, 1h59 Directed byMartin Hellberg GenresDrama, Biography, Historical ActorsWolf Kaiser, Heinz Giese, Ruth Maria Kubitschek, Maly Delschaft, Ulrich Thein, Franz Arzdorf Roles Aleander Rating72% At 1519, the teachings of Martin Luther sweep through the German principalities. They are welcomed by the peasants, who hope that the new doctrines will help to liberate them from the oppressive yoke of the nobility and the magistrates. The young pastor Thomas Muentzer embraces Lutheranism, but he is more radical in his support for the peasants.