• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1965-09-09
  • Runtime114 minutes
  • TaglineNot Available
  • RevenueNot Available
  • GenreDrama
  • Production
    CompaniesDEFA
  • BudgetNot Available

Movie Overview

This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary Social Democrat, workers’ leader and a virulent antimilitarist, is one among 110 SPD members of Parliament who vote against approving war loans. From then on, he is considered un-German and a traitor to the fatherland, and his own party’s leadership turns against him. Despite threats, Liebknecht speaks up against the war and writes the manifesto “The Main Enemy Is at Home.” Even when he is arrested and charged with treason, he does not surrender.

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Horst Schulze

Lyudmila Kasyanova

Mikhail Ulyanov

Albert Hetterle

Erika Dunkelmann

Jutta Hoffmann

Stefan Lisewski

Albert Garbe

Fred Delmare

Wolfgang Ostberg

Hans Hardt-Hardtloff

Mathilde Danegger

Rolf Ludwig

Rolf Hoppe

Zofia Rysiówna

Harald Halgardt

Werner Dissel

Alfred Müller

Harry Hindemith

Norbert Christian

Jochen Diestelmann

Gert Gütschow

Jürgen Hentsch

Walter Jupé

Lutz Riemann

Achim Schmidtchen

Günter Schubert

Peter Sturm

Hermann Stövesand