Word: luxemburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face charges of treasonable activities. The singer, once praised by the regime, had become an increasingly strident dissident. Krawczyk was arrested, along with about 120 others, following a Jan. 17 Communist Party rally in East Berlin during which protesters displayed banners calling for greater democracy. A poster quoted Rosa Luxemburg, a Communist heroine whose murder in 1919 was being commemorated that day: FREEDOM IS ALWAYS THE FREEDOM FOR OTHERS TO THINK DIFFERENTLY...
...THAT von Trotta entirely escapes making "Rotte Rosa," as she was called by supporters, into a legendary figure. And this glorification of character may be the film's greatest fault. For example, classical music is used to glorify Rosa during her great speeches. Fortunately, the highly unflattering portrayal of Luxemburg's personal life returns the film to the realm of realism...
...Trotta moderates her actors' performances and saves the film from the excesses that made the characters of Gandhi too inspiring to be real. Von Trotta's focus on the female friends of Luxemburg, for example, tends to humanize the historical figure. And the feminist director prevents the men who love Rosa from idolizing...
...Luxemburg's strong character is balanced by the strength of her companions. As Clara Zetkin, Doris Schade expertly comforts and complements Rosa. And Otto Sander, who plays Luxemburg's political ally Karl Liebknecht, burns with an impressive zeal...
Despite the smallness of her part as Elisabeth, a young prison attendant enamored with her political charge and mentored by her, Katherina Seyferth succeeds in vivifying the mundane side of Luxemburg's life...