Denn ich sah eine neue Erde ( 1970 )

Overview

Four-part television film about the theologian Thomas Müntzer, who became a revolutionary and opponent of Luther during the Peasant War in 1525. December 1520: Martin Luther publicly burns the papal certificate threatening him with excommunication. The papal envoy demands the heretic's extradition to Rome. But the Saxon Elector Friedrich lets Luther grant. On the same day, Luther sends his friend and trailer Müntzer to Zwickau to continue the Reformation there. But Zwickau is also the city of oppressed cloth companions and great poverty. Müntzer consciously encounters the social hardship of the people for the first time and transforms from a pendant to the opponent of Luther. In the German Peasant War, he faces the superior princely army in the decisive battle near Frankenhausen as a leader of the insurgents.

Top Cast

Wolf Kaiser

Thomas Müntzer

Cox Habbema

Ottilie

Wolfgang Dehler

Martin Luther

Manfred Müller

Horst Hiemer

Helmut Müller-Lankow

Gerhard Lau

Jochen Thomas

Gerhard Bienert

Werner Tietze

Alexander Wikarski

Christoph Engel

Friederike Aust

Friedrich Richter

Norbert Christian

Gerry Wolff

Kurt Kachlicki

Georg Leopold

Marianne Wünscher

Hans-Joachim Büttner

Adolf Peter Hoffmann

Walter Lendrich

Günter Sonnenberg

Herbert Köfer

Robert Trösch

Uwe Detlef Jessen

Helmut Schellhardt

Eberhard Esche

Jürgen Holtz