Der Röhm-Putsch (1967)

Sinopsis

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…

Pelakon

• Hans KorteStabschef der SA Ernst Röhm
• Helmut FischerSA-Obergruppenführer August Schneidhuber
• Dieter KirchlechnerSA-Obergruppenführer Edmund Heines
• Wilmut BorellSA-Obergruppenführer Fritz von Kraußer
• Hans ZanderSA-Gruppenführer Karl Ernst
• Arthur BraussSA-Gruppenführer Gruber
• Kurd PieritzSS-Oberführer Theodor Eicke
• Friedrich G. BeckhausSS-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich
• Harry HardtGeneralmajor Ferdinand von Bredow
• Fritz StraßnerGeneral Kurt von Schleicher
• Ulrich BeigerGeneralmajor Walter von Reichenau
• Alexander HegarthJustizminister Dr. Hans Frank
• Gustl BayrhammerWirt
• Joachim RakeReichswehrgeneral
• Alexander AllersonRöhms Adjutant in Bolivien
• Til KiweSA-Mann
• Helmut AlimontaSA-Mann
• Peter BrandGeneralleutnant von Kleist