This is part one of a two-part biopic about Karl Liebknecht. In 1914, Germany is arming itself for war. Karl Liebknecht, left-wing revolutionary Social Democrat, workers’ leader and a virulent antimilitarist, is one among 110 SPD members of Parliament who vote against approving war loans. From then on, he is considered un-German and a traitor to the fatherland, and his own party’s leadership turns against him. Despite threats, Liebknecht speaks up against the war and writes the manifesto “The Main Enemy Is at Home.” Even when he is arrested and charged with treason, he does not surrender.
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Horst Schulze as Karl Liebknecht
Lyudmila Kasyanova as Sophie Liebknecht
Mikhail Ulyanov as Frolow
Albert Hetterle as Paul Schreiner
Erika Dunkelmann as Milda Schreiner
Jutta Hoffmann as Käthe Schreiner
Stefan Lisewski as Werner Gutjahr
Albert Garbe as Albin Holzer
Fred Delmare as Waldemar Lehmann
Wolfgang Ostberg as Ernst Lemke
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff as Tischler
Mathilde Danegger as Seine Frau
Rolf Ludwig as von Preuß
Fredy Barten as Abgeordneter
Erich Mirek as Wilhelm Pieck
Rolf Hoppe as Abgeordneter
Frithjof Rüde as
Horst-Tanu Margraf as
Zofia Rysiówna as
Siegfried Weiß as
Hans Finohr as
Adolf Peter Hoffmann as
Otto Lang as Scheidemann
Kurt Dunkelmann as
Arthur Jopp as
Adolf Fischer as
Harald Halgardt as
Werner Dissel as
Kurt Steingraf as
Alfred Müller as
Peter Brang as
Harry Hindemith as
Otto Roland as
Günther Ballier as
Ute Boeden as
Ursula Braun as
Norbert Christian as
Jochen Diestelmann as
Oswald Foerderer as
Lothar Förster as
Gert Gütschow as
Jürgen Hentsch as
Walter Jupé as
Peter Kalisch as
Werner Kamenik as
Horst Lommatzsch as
Willi Neuenhahn as
Lutz Riemann as
Achim Schmidtchen as
Heinz Schröder as
Günter Schubert as
Werner Schulz-Wittan as
Peter Sturm as
Hermann Stövesand as
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