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Hammer or Anvil

0.0 157 mins Drama   Crime   1972
DEFA   Mosfilm   Boyana Film  
Director(s): Christo Christov

This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Reichstag Fire Trial trumped-up charges of having set the Reichstag on fire were brought against him. At the trial Dimitrov exposed the machinations of the Nazis and turned from a defendant into an accuser. Central to the story is the face-to-face political duel between Dimitrov and Goering. Dimitrov's interactions with ordinary Germans, the memories of his wife Lyuba Ivoshevich, and the meetings with his mother Parashkeva alternate with documentary shooting scenes from the time of Nazi Germany.

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Stefan Getsov

as Georgi Dimitrov

Viliam Polónyi

as Hermann Georing

Frank Obermann

as Diels

Hannjo Hasse

as Nebe

Martin Flörchinger

as Dr. Buenger

Günther Simon

as Pastor

Gerd Michael Henneberg

as Reich Minister Konstantin von Neurath

Horst Giese

as Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels

Ivan Andreev

as Tanev

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