82 minutes
2/15/1975
Ernst is a student in Hamburg around 1900 and leads a life like many other young people. In his free time, he roams the colorful metropolis with his buddy Karl. After school, he helps his father, whose business he is to inherit one day. Ernst has many questions about the world and life, but it is difficult to find satisfactory answers... At this time, nobody suspects that he will go down in the history books as the workers' leader Ernst Thälmann.
Michael Hundrieser
as Ernst Thälmann
Norbert Christian
as Thälmanns Vater
Barbara Adolph
as Thälmanns Mutter
Johannes Wieke
as Behr
Doris Thalmer
as Mutter von Franz
Manfred Karge
as Franz
Katrin Martin
as Lina
Willi Schrade
as Turnlehrer
Lothar Bellag
as Lehrer
Horst Papke
as Onkel
Hartmut Puls
as Gewerkschaftler
Bodo Schmidt
as Wirt