Ernst Thälmann (1986)

Directed by

Ursula Bonhoff, Georg Schiemann

Genre

drama, history

Country

German Democratic Republic

Runtime

3h 50m

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This two-part miniseries tells the story of Ernst Thalmann, the leader of the German Communist Party during the Weimar Republic. It follows his political life and eventual execution by Nazi order.

biographicalhistoricalearnestseriousslow-pacedinformativeresolutemelancholic

What happens

Ernst Thälmann is a two-part television miniseries by DEFA. It was first broadcast on 7 February 1986 on GDR television, DFF. It is on the life of German Communist leader, Ernst Thälmann (who during the Weimar Republic was the head of the ticket for the Communist Party of Germany, and was executed on Adolf Hitler's order, 1944). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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