ROSA LUXEMBURG (Germany 1986, 123 min), directed by Margarethe von Trotta, with Barbara Sukowa, Daniel Olbrychski, Otto Sander & Jürgen Holtz

Best Actress, Cannes Film Festival 1986

2 German Film Awards 1986

At the beginning of the 20th century, Polish-born German revolutionary and agitator Rosa Luxemburg became the most outspoken advocate for humanitarian Marxism and a symbolic figure of the workers' movement. Trials, imprisonment and political upheavals characterized the last years of her life, until her assassination in 1919. This dramatization of the life and political struggles of Rosa Luxemburg poignantly explores the inner motives for political action, civil courage and the pursuit of justice.

"Von Trotta's film, with a fine, soberly intelligent performance by Barbara Sukowa (the seductive star of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lola), is a first-rate introduction to an extremely complicated personality." — The New York Times