Käthe Kollwitz – Pictures of a Life

Apr 23, 1987

1h 36m

★ 5.0

Overview

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Peter, her youngest son, volunteered to join the German army in WWI and was killed two weeks later. This painful tragedy changed Kollwitz's life and art forever.

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

DEFA

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Cast

Käthe Kollwitz

Jutta Wachowiak

Karl Kollwitz

Fred Düren

Lina

Carmen-Maja Antoni

Sander

Gerd Baltus

Peter Kollwitz

Matthias Freihof

SA-Mann

Detlef Bierstedt

Gestapobeamter

Rolf Ludwig

Kritiker

Eckhard Becker

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