Uns mahnt ein November

A retrospective view of the events of the German revolution produced by DEFA-Studio (GDR) in 1958. The revolutionary period lasted from November 1918 until the formal establishment of the Weimar Republic in August 1919. The film’s ideological slant is clear from the very first title card: “When we think of the November Revolution of 1918, it is for us a time of heroic struggle for the German prole…