Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg is a 1986 West German drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. The film received the 1986 German Film Award for Best Feature Film (Bester Spielfilm), and Barbara Sukowa won the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actress Award and the German Film Award for Best Actress for her performance as Rosa Luxemburg.
Plot
Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg dreams about revolution during the era of German Wilhelminism. While Luxemburg campaigns relentlessly for her beliefs, getting repeatedly imprisoned in Germany as well as in Poland, she spars with lovers and comrades until Luxemburg is assassinated by Freikorps for her leadership in the Spartacist uprising after World War I in 1919.
Cast
- Adelheid Arndt
- Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass
- Barbara Sukowa
- Charles Brauer
- Charles Régnier
- Daniel Olbrychski
- David Schneider
- Dayna Drozdek
- Doris Schade
- Eva Jakoubková
- Felix Moeller
- Hannes Jaenicke
- Hans Beerhenke
- Hans-Michael Rehberg
- Henryk Baranowski
- Igor Smržík
- Inge Herbrecht
- Jan Biczycki
- Jan Pohan
- Jirí Hladký
- Jürgen Holtz
- Karin Baal
- Katharina Seyferth
- Klaus Abramowsky
- Lena Birková
- Leopold von Verschuer
- Ludvík Pozník
- Małgorzata Gebel
- Míla Myslíková
- Oldřich Vlach
- Oto Ševčík
- Otto Sander
- Raoul Schránil
- Regina Lemnitz
- Vladimir Kotrlík
- Vladimír Matějček
- Winfried Glatzeder
- Zdenek Novotný
More details
author | Margarethe von Trotta |
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contentLocation | Berlin |
director | Margarethe von Trotta |
editor | Dagmar Hirtz |
events | Rosa Luxemburg socialism Wilhelminism |
genre | drama historical |
keywords | assassinate assassination comrade freikorps marxism marxist socialist spartacist uprising uprise world war i |
musicBy | Nikolas Economou |
producer | Eberhard Junkersdorf Regina Ziegler |
recordedAt | Berlin |
theme | biographical biographical drama independent war |