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Title Free Thaelmann
Production Date 1935
Country of Production United Kingdom
Duration 00:23:42
Film Subject Era 1925-1939; 1939-1945
Genre Biography; Documentary
Summary Silent film with English inter-titles on the German Communist leader Ernst Thälmann and the campaign to release him from Buchenwald concentration camp.
Subjects Nazism; Communism; Weimar Republic; Elections; Political parties and movements; Political persecution; Political prisoners; Political rallies; Street fighting; Police brutality; Prisoners; Arrests; Torture; Executions; Trials; Anti-Communism
People Thälmann, Ernst (1886-1944); Hindenburg, Paul von (1847-1934); Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Hugenberg, Alfred (1865-1951); Thyssen, Friedrich (1873-1951); Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Alfried (1907-1967); Dimitrov, Georgi (1882-1949); Popov, Blagoy (1902-1968); Tanev, Vasil (1879-1941); Torgler, Ernst (1893-1963); van der Lubbe, Marinus (1909-1934)
Places Germany
Fiction/Non Fiction Non Fiction
Sound Silent
Colour Format Black and White
Module Wars & Revolutions
Copyright The British Film Institute