500 Jahre Bauernkrieg: "Thomas Müntzer - Ein Film deutscher Geschichte" - mit Live-Musik

The Peasants' War of 1525 was directed against the feudal-clerical system of rule, against economic hardship and social misery as a result of increasing extortion, expropriation, disenfranchisement and oppression by the nobility and the church.
We are showing the DEFA historical film about Thomas Müntzer - with an introduction by Wolfgang Alles from the action alliance "We won't pay for your crisis!", and with contemporary songs performed live by Bernd Köhler (guitar) and Michael Csaszkóczy (theorbo and hurdy-gurdy)!

THOMAS MÜNTZER - A FILM OF GERMAN HISTORY

GDR 1956. D: Martin Hellberg. D: Wolfgang Stumpf, Margarete Taudte, Wolf Kaiser, Martin Flörchinger, Ruth Maria Kubitschek. 134 min. FSK: 6

For the priest Thomas Müntzer, a follower of the Lutheran Reformation, the Bible is not only an impetus for spiritual but also for secular reforms. After disagreeing with Martin Luther, he became a spokesman for the suffering rural population. In 1525, he was at the center of the Thuringian peasant uprising without being able to persuade the peasants and craftsmen to join forces with other revolutionary groups, for example in southern Germany. Nevertheless, he marches with his peasant army into battle against the princes at Frankenhausen...
The "German Peasants' War" was directed against feudalist-clerical rule, which systematically oppressed the "common man". Economic hardship and social misery led to numerous uprisings in southern and central Germany - and to the bloody suppression of the revolutionary movement with tens of thousands of deaths.

Before the film: Contemporary songs by Bernd Köhler (guitar) and Michael Csaszkóczy (theorbo and hurdy-gurdy)
Introduction: Wolfgang Alles
In cooperation with the action alliance "We won't pay for your crisis!"
Admission: 12 € / 9 € reduced / 8 € members Cinema Quadrat e.V.