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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

Karin Baal
as Mathilde Jacob

Winfried Glatzeder
as Paul Levi

Barbara Lass
as Rosa's mother

Dagna Drozdek
as Rosa at Age 6

Charles Regnier
as Jean Jaures

Charles Brauer
as Warden, Breslau

Hans Beerhenke
as Ignaz Auer

Klaus Abramowsky
as Arthur Stadthagen

Míla Myslíková
as Julie Bebel

Oldrich Vlach
as Warden, Warsaw

Raoul Schranil

Jan Biczycki
as August Bebel

Regina Lemnitz
as Gertrud

Felix Moeller

Hans Michael Rehberg
as Pabst

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Critic Reviews for Die Geduld der Rosa Luxemburg

Audience Reviews for Die Geduld der Rosa Luxemburg

• Nov 07, 2009

  Among the many virtues of Rosa Luxemberg is the aesthetic and political sense it makes of the beliefs and behaviour of people who once lived to make a better world. The film personifies the ideals of the radical movements that swept Europe at the turn of the century. The film directed by perhaps the best-known female director Margarethe von Trotta and featuring Barbara Sukowa as Luxemberg, avoids what might have been mere propaganda, not only to deal with history in all its messy complexities but also portray its heroine as a tragic figure who inadvertently unleashed the forces that destroyed her. Rosa Luxemberg (1871-1919) was one of the most talented women of her era. Having been born in Russian Poland to a family of wealthy merchants, she became interested in socialism and, at 18, was forced to flee to Switzerland because of her revolutionaty activities. A symbol of courage and rectitude, she fought against every prejudice and handicap. Born with a deformed foot, Luxemberg walked with a limp , and in the film she refers to herself as a 'lame duck' and was regarded as too young to be a serious political thinker. Despite its focus on complex theoretical matters, the film however makes numerous transitions from the political to the personal. In one scene, Luxemberg is marched blindfolded into a room and forced to stand against a wall as the order "Fire!" is given. She flinches and her thoughts flash back to her childhood.
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