Rosa Luxemburg(film)

Rosa Luxemburg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Margarethe von Trotta
Written by	Margarethe von Trotta
Produced by	Eberhard Junkersdorf Regina Ziegler
Starring	Barbara Sukowa
Cinematography	Franz Rath
Edited by	Dagmar Hirtz
Release date	10 April 1986(1986-04-10)
Running time	123 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

Rosa Luxemburgis a 1986West Germandrama film directed byMargarethe von Trotta.The film received the 1986German Film Award for Best Feature Film(Bester Spielfilm), andBarbara Sukowawon theCannes Film Festival'sBest Actress Awardand theGerman Film Award for Best Actressfor her performance asRosa Luxemburg.

Plot

PolishsocialistandMarxistRosa Luxemburg dreams about revolution during the era of GermanWilhelminism.While Luxemburg campaigns relentlessly for her beliefs, getting repeatedly imprisoned in Germany as well as in Poland, she spars with lovers andcomradesuntil Luxemburg isassassinatedbyFreikorpsfor her leadership in theSpartacist uprisingafterWorld War Iin 1919.

Cast

• Barbara SukowaasRosa Luxemburg
• Daniel OlbrychskiasLeo Jogiches
• Otto SanderasKarl Liebknecht
• Adelheid ArndtasLuise Kautsky
• Jürgen HoltzasKarl Kautsky
• Doris SchadeasClara Zetkin
• Hannes JaenickeasKostja Zetkin
• Jan BiczyckiasAugust Bebel
• Karin BaalasMathilde Jacob
• Winfried Glatzederas Paul Levi
• Regina Lemnitzas Gertrud
• Barbara Lassas Rosa's mother
• Dayna Drozdekas Rosa, 6 years old
• Henryk Baranowskias Josef, Rosa's brother
• Patrizia Lazregas Josef's daughter
• Charles RégnierasJean Jaurès

Reception

Miss von Trotta's film, with a fine, soberly intelligent performance by Barbara Sukowa (the seductive star ofRainer Werner Fassbinder'sLola), 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

External links

• Rosa LuxemburgatIMDb