Hammer or Anvil

Release Date: 1972-09-08

Overview: 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.

Rating: 0 / 10

Cast

Stefan Getsov

as Georgi Dimitrov

Viliam Polónyi

as Hermann Georing

Frank Obermann

as Diels

Hannjo Hasse

as Nebe

Micaela Kreißler

as Erika