Es geht durch die Welt ein Geflüster (1988)

• 77%
• 1988
• Documentary
• History

November 7, 1918: Revolutionary night in Munich. After a large demonstration, Kurt Eisner leads the crowd to the barracks. The war-weary soldiers immediately defect. The king and his entourage flee. Without bloodshed, the Free State of Bavaria is born. Subsequently, revolutionary and reactionary forces fight for power with all means. Eisner is assassinated. Two soviet republics are short-lived. The young democracy is vulnerable and fails, is bloodily crushed. It goes through the world a whisper was made in 1988 and interweaves contemporary film documents and interviews. The audience includes contemporary witnesses from the anarchist, communist and socialist spectrum who were already very old at the time, such as Benno Scharmanski, Centa Herker, Hugo Jakusch, Sophie Radischnigg, Minna Dittenheber, Emil Meier and Peter Lichtinger. They are children and young people from the working-class milieu who experienced the revolution at close quarters, sympathized with it or fought with it. The achievements of the revolution are just as much a theme as its failures. This includes the upheavals within the left as well as the heroines of the women's movement; first and foremost the lesbian couple Anita Augspurg and Lida Gustava Heymann, the revolutionaries Hilde Kramer, Zenzl Mühsam, Sarah Sonja Lerch and Hedwig Kämpfer, the only female judge in the revolutionary tribunal.