
09/09/1965
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.

Horst Schulze
as Karl Liebknecht

Lyudmila Kasyanova
as Sophie Liebknecht

Mikhail Ulyanov
as Frolow

Albert Hetterle
as Paul Schreiner

Erika Dunkelmann
as Milda Schreiner

Jutta Hoffmann
as Käthe Schreiner

Stefan Lisewski
as Werner Gutjahr

Albert Garbe
as Albin Holzer

Fred Delmare
as Waldemar Lehmann

Wolfgang Ostberg
as Ernst Lemke

Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
as Tischler

Mathilde Danegger
as Seine Frau

Rolf Ludwig
as von Preuß

Fredy Barten
as Abgeordneter

Erich Mirek
as Wilhelm Pieck

Rolf Hoppe
as Abgeordneter

Frithjof Rüde
as

Horst-Tanu Margraf
as

Zofia Rysiówna
as

Siegfried Weiß
as

Hans Finohr
as Ledebour

Adolf Peter Hoffmann
as

Otto Lang
as Scheidemann

Kurt Dunkelmann
as

Arthur Jopp
as

Adolf Fischer
as

Harald Halgardt
as

Werner Dissel
as Bethmann-Hollweg

Kurt Steingraf
as

Alfred Müller
as

Peter Brang
as

Harry Hindemith
as

Otto Roland
as

Günther Ballier
as

Ute Boeden
as

Ursula Braun
as

Norbert Christian
as

Jochen Diestelmann
as

Oswald Foerderer
as

Lothar Förster
as

Gert Gütschow
as

Jürgen Hentsch
as

Walter Jupé
as

Peter Kalisch
as

Werner Kamenik
as

Horst Lommatzsch
as

Willi Neuenhahn
as

Lutz Riemann
as

Achim Schmidtchen
as

Heinz Schröder
as

Günter Schubert
as

Werner Schulz-Wittan
as

Peter Sturm
as

Hermann Stövesand
as
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