After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.
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- 4 wins & 4 nominations
- August Bebel
- (as Jan-Paul Biczycki)
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- TriviaRainer Werner Fassbinder was planning to direct a film on Rosa Luxemburg in early 1983. Jane Fonda had already agreed to play the lead when Fassbinder suddenly died in June 1982.
- GoofsThe historical Rosa Luxemburg was short (about five feet, 150 cm), had dark brown eyes and a pudgy face. In this film, she is played by Barbara Sukowa who is much taller (5 foot 5, 165 cm), has gray-green eyes and sharp features.
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[first lines]
Rosa Luxemburg: Sonja, you are bitter about my long enprisonment and ask: "How is it that some people may decide the fate of others?". My dear, all history is based on people deciding the fate of others and that is deeply rooted in the conditions of our material existence. The only way to change this is by painful upheaval. You ask: "What is it all for?" "What for" conveys nothing about the totality of life and its many forms. Why do blue tits exist? I really have no idea but I'm glad they do exist and it gives me great confort when suddenly, over the prison wall, I hear them call in the distance. Sonitschka, be cheerful and don't fret. Things will turn out well, believe me. Greetings to Karl. Many kisses, Rosa.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Die Neugier immer weiter treiben (1995)
Karl eats a sandwich whilst Rosa's trying to play a piano.
Rosa tries to nip off a piece of a piano whilst Karl's making himself a sandwich.
Karl's eating a sandwich whilst Rosa renews a piano.
Rosa's making herself a sandwich whilst Karl plays a renewed piano.
Karl's looking out the window, sees a car with buns, walks down to the street, takes one.
Rosa's eating her sandwich and all the remaining ingredients.
Karl is not coming back.
Rosa agonizingly pondering what to make Karl a sandwich from when he'll return.
However, Karl does not return.
Rosa looking out the window, sees a car with buns, feels that her stomach is full.
Karl is yet not coming back.
Rose goes out into the street, she is greeted by a snotty brat with his right hand raised at an angle of 135 degrees.
.. And Then There Were None.
It's not a good or 'big' movie. If it were a comedy, value would have increased significantly. If it were Zukova in role of Liebknecht, for example. You shouldn't even stutter about the tragicomedy.
Exemplary 'historical' drama, rather mediocre. 'Historical' in meaning of your Grandma's buns. With the prefix "melo-" - just a prefix, not an independent, equal part of the word. Melody is lacking.
Kind of 'redemption' could be a bit speculative correlation between nine Rosa Luxemburg's imprisonments (although Barbara Zukova is still represented here, just like in "The Last King of Scotland" - there's only Forest Whitaker, not Idi Amin) and widespread and actively fueled for symbolic, mystical and in all the 'occult' (o\accidentally-cultural) myth of the nine symphonies.
One of the cases when, haven't skip a frame, only to conclude that it was, is and will "not worth the time."
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