''Karl Liebknecht'' is a two-part

East German East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

film series directed by

Günter Reisch Günter Reisch (24 November 1927 – 24 February 2014) was a German film director and screenwriter. He served in the German Army during the last stage of World War II. On 20 April 1944 he became a member of the Nazi Party. After his release from a ...

, about the German

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leader Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919), starring

Horst Schulze Horst Schulze (26 April 1921 – 24 October 2018) was a German actor and opera singer. He was born in Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Sa ...

in the part as Liebknecht, and Lyudmila Kasyanova as Sophie Liebknecht. *The first film, from 1965, ''Karl Liebknecht - Solange Leben in mir ist''. *The second film, from 1972, ''Karl Liebknecht - Trotz alledem!''

Cast

: Karl Liebknecht * Ludmila Kasjanowa: Sophie Liebknecht * Rita Krips: Vera Liebknecht * Mikhail Ulyanov: Frolow *

Albert Hetterle Albert Hetterle (31 October 1918 – 17 December 2006) was a German actor who also became intendant at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin. Early years Albert Hetterle was born in Petersthal a few weeks after the First World War had ended. His fa ...

: Paul Schreiner * Erika Dunkelmann: Milda Schreiner * Jutta Hoffmann: Käthe Schreiner * Stefan Lisewski: Werner Gutjahr * Albert Garbe: Albin Holzer * Fred Delmare: Waldemar Lehmann * Wolfgang Ostberg: Ernst Lemke * Hans Hardt-Hardtloff: Tischler * Horst-Tanu Margraf: Professor Wendler * Zofia Rysiówna:

Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Luxemburg (; ; pl, Róża Luksemburg or ; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist. Successively, she was a member of the Proletariat party, ...

* Erich Mirek: Wilhelm Pieck * Siegfried Weiss: Franz Mehring *

Hans Finohr Hans (Johannes) Finohr (5 September 1891–8 November 1966) was a German actor. Biography Finohr was born in the village of Rynnek, West Prussia, Imperial Germany and gained his first stage experiences at Heiligenbeil (Mamonovo). He worke ...

Georg Ledebour Georg Ledebour (7 March 1850, Hanover – 31 March 1947) was a German socialist journalist and politician. He served as a stretcher bearer in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. He worked as a journalist on several newspapers after 1875. He joined ...

* Adolf Peter Hoffmann:

Gustav Noske Gustav Noske (9 July 1868 – 30 November 1946) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He served as the first Minister of Defence (''Reichswehrminister'') of the Weimar Republic between 1919 and 1920. Noske has been a cont ...

* Otto Lang: Philipp Scheidemann * Harald Halgardt: Kaiser

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. *

Werner Dissel Werner Friedrich Dissel (26 August 1912 – 22 January 2003) was a Germans, German actor, director, and German resistance to Nazism, resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. Biography Dissel's began working as a newspaper photographer in the ...

: Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg * Otto Roland: Minister of War * Alfred Müller: Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach * Arthur Jopp: Albert Südekum *

Peter Sturm Josef Michel Dischel (24 August 1909 – 11 May 1984), known by his adopted stage name Peter Sturm, was an Austrian and an East German actor. Biography Early life Dischel was born into a religious Jewish family in Vienna. His father was a tailor, ...

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* * 1965 films 1972 films East German films 1960s German-language films Films set in Berlin German biographical films Biographical films about revolutionaries Films set in the 1910s German film series Cultural depictions of Karl Liebknecht Cultural depictions of Rosa Luxemburg Cultural depictions of Wilhelm II 1960s German films 1970s German films {{bio-film-stub

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