A film by Margarethe Von Trotta - one of the pioneers of German New Wave cinema and the first woman to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (1981).
Nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival in 1986, Rosa Luxemburg is Margarethe von Trotta’s remarkable biopic of an icon of the international left.
Luxemburg (Barbara Sukowa - winner of Best Actress in Cannes for this role), a dedicated Marxist and pacifist, is arrested in 1905 for her political activities. Sticking to her convictions, she goes on to be repeatedly imprisoned for her activism. In 1915, growing disillusioned with the German Social Democratic Party when they endorse the senseless slaughter of World War I, she founds the Spartacist League, later the Communist Party of Germany. However, her pursuit of real structural change results in ruthless reprisal by her former comrades...
