The documentary play reconstructs the backstory of the so-called “Röhm Putsch”, during which a few hundred people got killed, depicts the intrigues between the Reichswehr (German army) and the SA, and draws an image of the character of Röhm who, prior to Hitler’s accession to power, was his friend but later got pushed more and more into the background and eventually was disposed of. Röhm, captain during the 1st World War, organisational talent, daredevil, and one of the ‘discoverers’ of the corporal Hitler, was the central figure in the secret power struggles in the just established Hitler state. He demanded a ’second revolution’ and wanted to unite the million-man army of the SA and the Reichswehr under his leadership…
Directed by Günter Gräwert
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Cast
Hans Korte
Stabschef der SA Ernst Röhm
Helmut Fischer
SA-Obergruppenführer August Schneidhuber
Dieter Kirchlechner
SA-Obergruppenführer Edmund Heines
Wilmut Borell
SA-Obergruppenführer Fritz von Kraußer
Hans Zander
SA-Gruppenführer Karl Ernst
Arthur Brauss
SA-Gruppenführer Gruber
Kurd Pieritz
SS-Oberführer Theodor Eicke
Friedrich G. Beckhaus
SS-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich
Harry Hardt
Generalmajor Ferdinand von Bredow
Fritz Straßner
General Kurt von Schleicher
Ulrich Beiger
Generalmajor Walter von Reichenau
Alexander Hegarth
Justizminister Dr. Hans Frank
Gustl Bayrhammer
Wirt
Joachim Rake
Reichswehrgeneral
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