Rosa Luxemburg
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In this informative and measured docudrama, director Margarethe von Trotta (who inherited the project from the late Rainer Werner Fassbinder) relates the life and times of Rosa Luxemburg. Von Trotta based her film on historical research and some of the more than 2,000 letters Rosa Luxemburg wrote during her active life. Luxemburg was a leader of both the German and Polish Socialist parties who advocated an anti-colonialist and pacifist stance on the issues of her day. This drama opens with a shocking prison scene: Rosa is set up for a mock execution while other prisoners are murdered around her. She is eventually released from prison to continue writing, talking, traveling, and exhorting others to join in the Socialist movement. Her lovers, her friends, and historical VIPs wend their way through her life year by year as she fulfills her destiny. Imprisoned on more than one occasion, Rosa did not escape her political enemies; she was assassinated on a January night in 1919 while walking with her friend Karl Liebknecht, who was also murdered. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, RoviCast
- Barbara Sukowa - Rosa Luxemburg
- Daniel Olbrychski - Leo Jogiches
- Otto Sander - Karl Liebknecht
- Adelheid Arndt - Luise Kautsky
- Jurgen Holtz - Karl Kautsky
Credit
Eva Ebner - First Assistant Director, Margit Czenki - First Assistant Director, Margarethe von Trotta - Director, Dagmar Hirtz - Editor, Nicolas Economou - Composer (Music Score), Karel Vacek - Production Designer, Franz Rath - Cinematographer, Eberhard Junkersdorf - Producer, Martin Wiebel - Producer, Regina Ziegler - Producer, Bernd Lopel - Set Designer, Karel Vacek - Set Designer, Christian Moldt - Sound/Sound Designer, Margarethe von Trotta - Screenwriter| Rosa La Rose, Fille Publique (1985 Film), Rosa La China (2002 Film) | |
| Rosa Negra (1992 Film), Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement (2004 Film) |
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Rosa Luxemburg (film)
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| Directed by | Margarethe von Trotta |
| Produced by | Eberhard Junkersdorf Regina Ziegler |
| Written by | Margarethe von Trotta |
| Starring | Barbara Sukowa |
| Cinematography | Franz Rath |
| Editing by | Dagmar Hirtz |
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| Running time | 123 minutes |
| Country | ‹See Tfd› West Germany |
| Language | German |
Rosa Luxemburg (German: Die Geduld der Rosa Luxemburg) is a 1986 West German drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival where Barbara Sukowa won the award for Best Actress.[1] Moreover the film received the German Film Award (Bundesfilmpreis) for being considered 1986's best feature film.
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Polish socialist and pacifist 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, lovers and comrades betray her until the ambitious leader is assassinated after World War I in 1919.
Cast
- Barbara Sukowa as Rosa Luxemburg
- Daniel Olbrychski as Leo Jogiches
- Otto Sander as Karl Liebknecht
- Adelheid Arndt as Luise Kautsky
- Jürgen Holtz as Karl Kautsky
- Doris Schade as Clara Zetkin
- Hannes Jaenicke as Kostja Zetkin
- Jan Biczycki as August Bebel
- Karin Baal as Mathilde Jacob
- Winfried Glatzeder as Paul Levi
- Regina Lemnitz as Gertrud
- Barbara Lass as Rosa's mother
- Dayna Drozdek as Rosa, 6 years old
- Henryk Baranowski as Josef, Rosa's brother
- Patrizia Lazreg as Josef's daughter
- Charles Régnier as Jean Jaures
Reception
Miss von Trotta's film, with a fine, soberly intelligent performance by Barbara Sukowa (the seductive star of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lola), is a first-rate introduction to an extremely complicated personality. It's necessarily simplified, as well as biased on behalf of those aspects of Luxemburg that will speak most clearly to today's audiences.—Vincent Canby – The New York Times[2]
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Rosa Luxemburg". festival-cannes.com. http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/796/year/1986.html. Retrieved 2009-07-10.
- ^ .Rosa Luxemburg (1986) FILM: 'ROSA LUXEMBURG,' NEW LIGHT ON EARLY LEFTIST
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