Karl Liebknecht (film)
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Karl Liebknecht is a two part East German film series directed by Günter Reisch
, about the German Communist leader Karl Liebknecht
(1871 - 1919), starring Horst Schulze
in the part as Liebknecht, and Lyudmila Kasyanova as Sophie Liebknecht
.
Günter Reisch
Günter Reisch, is a German film director. After World War II, Reisch started working with theater and film and became one of East Germany's most prominent film makers. He has made approx. 20 motion pictures, including the two Karl Liebknecht films.-Selected filmography:* The Sailor's Song * Ach du...
, about the German Communist leader Karl Liebknecht
Karl Liebknecht
was a German socialist and a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany. He is best known for his opposition to World War I in the Reichstag and his role in the Spartacist uprising of 1919...
(1871 - 1919), starring Horst Schulze
Horst Schulze
Horst Schulze is a German actor and opera singer, born April 26, 1921, in Dresden.-Selected filmographgy:* KLK Calling PTZ - The Red Orchestra * Woman Doctors * Stalingrad -External links:...
in the part as Liebknecht, and Lyudmila Kasyanova as Sophie Liebknecht
Sophie Liebknecht
Sophie Liebknecht was a Russian-born German socialist and feminist. She was the second wife of Karl Liebknecht, who had three children from his first marriage to Julia Liebknecht....
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- The first film, from 1965, Karl Liebknecht - Solange Leben in mir ist.
- The second film, from 1972, Karl Liebknecht - Trotz alledem!
Cast
- Horst SchulzeHorst SchulzeHorst Schulze is a German actor and opera singer, born April 26, 1921, in Dresden.-Selected filmographgy:* KLK Calling PTZ - The Red Orchestra * Woman Doctors * Stalingrad -External links:...
: Karl LiebknechtKarl Liebknechtwas a German socialist and a co-founder with Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany. He is best known for his opposition to World War I in the Reichstag and his role in the Spartacist uprising of 1919... - Ludmila Kasjanowa: Sophie LiebknechtSophie LiebknechtSophie Liebknecht was a Russian-born German socialist and feminist. She was the second wife of Karl Liebknecht, who had three children from his first marriage to Julia Liebknecht....
- Rita Krips: Vera Liebknecht
- Mikhail UlyanovMikhail UlyanovMikhail Alexandrovich Ulyanov was a Soviet and Russian actor who was one of the most recognizable persons of the post-World War II Soviet theatre and cinema. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1969 and received a special prize from the Venice Film Festival in 1982.Mikhail Alexandrovich...
: Frolow - Albert Hetterle: Paul Schreiner
- Erika Dunkelmann: Milda Schreiner
- Jutta Hoffmann: Käthe Schreiner
- Stefan Lisewski: Werner Gutjahr
- Albert Garbe: Albin Holzer
- Fred DelmareFred DelmareFred Delmare was a German actor.He was born in Hüttensteinach. He appeared in several films and television series, last in 70 episodes of In aller Freundschaft between 1998 and 2006. He died in May, 1 2009....
: Waldemar Lehmann - Wolfgang Ostberg: Ernst Lemke
- Hans Hardt-Hardtloff: Tischler
- Horst-Tanu Margraf: Professor Wendler
- Zofia Rysiówna: Rosa LuxemburgRosa LuxemburgRosa Luxemburg was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and activist of Polish Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen...
- Erich Mirek: Wilhelm PieckWilhelm PieckFriedrich Wilhelm Reinhold Pieck was a German politician and a Communist. In 1949, he became the first President of the German Democratic Republic, an office abolished upon his death. He was succeeded by Walter Ulbricht, who served as Chairman of the Council of States.-Biography:Pieck was born to...
- Siegfried Weiss: Franz MehringFranz MehringFranz Erdmann Mehring , was a German publicist, politician and historian.-Early years:Franz Mehring was born 27 February 1846 in Schlawe, Pomerania, the son of a bourgeois family.-Political career:...
- Hans Finohr: Georg Ledebour
- Adolf Peter Hoffmann: Gustav NoskeGustav NoskeGustav Noske was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He served as the first Minister of Defence of Germany between 1919 and 1920.-Biography:...
- Otto Lang: Philipp ScheidemannPhilipp ScheidemannPhilipp Scheidemann was a German Social Democratic politician, who proclaimed the Republic on 9 November 1918, and who became the second Chancellor of the Weimar Republic....
- Harald Halgardt: Kaiser Wilhelm II.
- Werner DisselWerner DisselWerner Friedrich Dissel was a German actor and director.-Biography:Dissel's began working as a newspaper photographer in the late 1920s. After the Nazis' rise to power, he became a member of an antifascist group headed by Harro Schulze-Boysen, and was involved in the resistance newspaper Wille zum...
: Theobald von Bethmann-HollwegTheobald von Bethmann-HollwegTheobald von Bethmann Hollweg was a German politician and statesman who served as Chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917.-Origins:... - Otto Roland: Minister of War
- Alfred Müller: Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und HalbachGustav Krupp von Bohlen und HalbachGustav Georg Friedrich Maria Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, "Taffi", ran the German Friedrich Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941...
- Arthur Jopp: Albert Südekum
- Peter SturmPeter SturmNot to be confused with the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control director by the same name.Josef Michel Dischel , known by his adopted stage name Peter Sturm, was an Austrian and an East German actor.-Early life:Josef Michel Dischel was born into a religious Jewish family...
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