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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303029306 Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC ISBN: 6303029302 Label: New Yorker Video Manufacturer: New Yorker Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Yorker Video Release Date: January 01, 1998 Running Time: 122 minutes Sales Rank: 28958 Studio: New Yorker Video Theatrical Release Date: 1985
Rating: - A movie that waits for its release on DVD format!
Impressive portrait of this historical personage. Barbara Sukova made the best role of her career, deserving for this role the coveted Silver Bear in Berlin, 1986 sharing honors with Cher in Mask.
A superb and unforgettable masterpiece.
Rating: - History Made Complex!
The reviewers below are to be thanked for helping to give other viewers (or potential viewers) of this film an idea of its historical context. Many in today's audience, particularly on this side of the ocean, may well need more context than the film itself provides. Rosa Luxemburg was still something of a leftist icon in the Germany of the 80s (and less of one in the US of the 60s)...and writer/director Margarethe von Trotta presumes a certain political and historical awareness on the part of the audience. Young, leftist-oriented Germans of the mid-80s (when this film was made) probably had ... Read More
Rating: - Love on the Left
The Social Democratic party was originally founded as the political arm of German Marxism. Extremely successful in mobilizing support in the working class, it was almost from the first torn by a question it never successfully resolved. Was the purpose of the party to advance the cause of the working class through legal, democratic means, or was it simply to represent those interests as best it could until capitalism collapsed from its contradictions and gave way to socialism?
This debate continued more or less up until the defining moment for European socialism, the outbreak of World ... Read More
Rating: - good
Movie focuses on Rosa's personal life with her lovers, the German Social Democrat party struggles before/during/after WWI, Rosa's experiences in her many different prison cells, and finally, the Sparticist attempt to take over Berlin.
I don't know much about Rosa's politics, but I want to point out that being a Social Democrat does not make one a Democratic Socialist. They are two different things (not totally different). So when Leonard Maltin says that Rosa was a democratic socialist, I don't know if he's confusing DS's with SD's. It may be that Rosa was a DS within the SD of ... Read More
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