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Hannah Arendt
Why this pick
Von Trotta again builds a rigorous, intimate portrait of a politically uncompromising woman, centering ideas, public backlash, and the personal cost of intellectual independence.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Polish socialism and marxism 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 the ambitious leader is Assassination by Freikorps for her leadership in the Spartacist uprising after World War I in 1919.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Daniel Olbrychski
Leo Jogiches
Hannes Jaenicke
Kostja Zetkin
Charles Brauer
Gefängnisdirektor, Breslau
Adelheid Arndt
Luise Kautsky
Doris Schade
Clara Zetkin
Jan Biczycki
August Bebel
Regina Lemnitz
Gertrud
Katharina Seyferth
Elisabeth