Overview - Der Röhm-Putsch

Date of release

Genres

  • History
  • TV Movie
  • Drama
  • Documentary

Runtime: 75 minutes

Homepage: Der Röhm-Putsch

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

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Spoken Languages

  • Deutsch

Production companies

  • Name: Aurora Film und Fernsehproduktion

    Production country

Overview

The documentary play reconstructs the backstory of the so-called “Röhm Putsch”, during which a few hundred people got killed, depicts the intrigues between the Reichswehr (German army) and the SA, and draws an image of the character of Röhm who, prior to Hitler’s accession to power, was his friend but later got pushed more and more into the background and eventually was disposed of. Röhm, captain during the 1st World War, organisational talent, daredevil, and one of the ‘discoverers’ of the corporal Hitler, was the central figure in the secret power struggles in the just established Hitler state. He demanded a ’second revolution’ and wanted to unite the million-man army of the SA and the Reichswehr under his leadership…

Cast

  • Name: Hans Korte

    Character: Stabschef der SA Ernst Röhm

    Popularity: 0.1657

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  • Name: Helmut Fischer

    Character: SA-Obergruppenführer August Schneidhuber

    Popularity: 0.2461

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  • Name: Dieter Kirchlechner

    Character: SA-Obergruppenführer Edmund Heines

    Popularity: 0.3351

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  • Name: Wilmut Borell

    Character: SA-Obergruppenführer Fritz von Kraußer

    Popularity: 0.0864

  • Name: Hans Zander

    Character: SA-Gruppenführer Karl Ernst

    Popularity: 0.0998

  • Name: Arthur Brauss

    Character: SA-Gruppenführer Gruber

    Popularity: 0.4192

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  • Name: Kurd Pieritz

    Character: SS-Oberführer Theodor Eicke

    Popularity: 0.0642

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  • Name: Friedrich G. Beckhaus

    Character: SS-Gruppenführer Sepp Dietrich

    Popularity: 0.3349

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