Die Dichter und die Räterepublik
★ 6 · 1990 · 57m · Documentary
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919 from the perspective of various well-known poets and writers who experienced the events as contemporary witnesses.
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