Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
Ernst Thälmann - Führer seiner Klasse
ernst thälmann – leader of the working class online free. This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918: Somewhere on Germany’s western front, Ernst Thälmann, age twenty-four, is calling on his fellow soldiers to put down their guns and join him in the communist struggle at home. When Hamburg’s Police Commissioner blocks a much-needed food shipment to the workers of Petrograd, Ernst battles to see it allowed through. Until his murder on August 18, 1944, Ernst remained true to his political convictions in the face of many setbacks.
- Genre: History, Drama
- Country: East Germany
- Director: Kurt Maetzig
- Cast: Günther Simon, Hans-Peter Minetti, Karla Runkehl, Michel Piccoli, Werner Peters, Fred Delmare, Paul R. Henker, Hans Wehrl, Karl Brenk, Gerd Wehr, Walter Martin, Theo Shall, Carla Hoffmann, Angela Brunner, Erich Franz, Erika Dunkelmann, Raimund Schelcher, Herbert Richter, Wilhelm Koch-Hooge, Georges Stanescu, Fritz Diez,
