This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody riots on May 1, 1929 in Berlin, in which police officers shot at demonstrating workers, and ends with February 7, 1933, when Thälmann appeared as a speaker at the illegal meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Germany in goat neck. This period was marked by the struggle of the Communists against the ever stronger National Socialists and the rise of Adolf Hitler.
Helmut Schellhardt
Ernst Thälmann
Christine Schorn
Rosa Thälmann
Günter Grabbert
Wilhelm Pieck
Peter Sodann
Marian Kociniak
Hartmut Beer
Wilfried Pucher
Hildegard Alex
Iris Bohnau
Manfred Borges
Margot Busse
Bruno Carstens
Fred Delmare
Werner Dissel
Emil Kirdorf
Friedhelm Eberle
Matthias Freihof
Klaus Gehrke
Renate Geißler
Detlef Gieß
Wolfgang Greese
Helga Göring
Gert Gütschow
Annemone Haase
Janina Hartwig
Albert Hetterle
Monika Hetterle
Petra Hinze
Hansjürgen Hürrig
Günter Junghans
Horst Kotterba
Jan Josef Liefers
Stefan Lisewski
Reinhard Michalke
Evelyn Opoczynski
Walter Plathe
Jalda Rebling
Hans-Peter Reinecke
Jürgen Reuter
Gerald Schaale
Frank-Otto Schenk
Andreas Schmidt-Schaller
Willi Schrade
Jaecki Schwarz
Jörg Schüttauf
Gerd Staiger
Alfred Struwe
Peer-Uwe Teska
Jürgen Trott
Erik Veldre
Hanns-Jörn Weber
Wolfgang Winkler
Günter Wolf
Arno Wyzniewski
Jürgen Zartmann