Ernst Thälmann (TV series)

Ernst Thälmann
GenreBiopic
Screenplay byOtto Bonhoff
Georg Schiemann
Erich Selbmann
Directed byUrsula Bonhoff
Georg Schiemann
StarringHelmut Schellhardt
Christine Schorn
Günther Grabbert
Peter Sodann
Music byKarl-Ernst Sasse
Country of originEast Germany
Original languageGerman
No. of episodes2
Production
Running time4 hours
Production companyDEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Original release
NetworkDeutscher Fernsehfunk
Release7 February 1986 (1986-02-07)

Ernst Thälmann is a two-part television miniseries by DEFA. It was first broadcast on 7 February 1986 on GDR television, DFF. It is on the life of German Communist leader, Ernst Thälmann (who during the Weimar Republic was the head of the ticket for the Communist Party of Germany, and was executed on Adolf Hitler's order, 1944).