Rosa Luxemburg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMargarethe von Trotta
Written byMargarethe von Trotta
Produced byEberhard Junkersdorf
Regina Ziegler
StarringBarbara Sukowa
CinematographyFranz Rath
Edited byDagmar Hirtz
Release date
  • 10 April 1986 (1986-04-10)
Running time
123 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Rosa Luxemburg is a 1986 West German drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. The film received the 1986 German Film Award for Best Feature Film (Bester Spielfilm), and Barbara Sukowa won the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actress Award and the German Film Award for Best Actress for her performance as Rosa Luxemburg.[1][2]

Plot

Polish socialist and Marxist 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 Luxemburg is assassinated by Freikorps for her leadership in the Spartacist uprising after World War I in 1919.

Cast

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[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Rosa Luxemburg". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 10 July 2009.
  2. ↑ "German Film Awards for 1986". IMDB. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
  3. ↑ .Rosa Luxemburg (1986) Film: 'Rosa Luxemburg,' New Light on Early Leftist
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