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ON MARCH 5 2021, we celebrate the 150th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth.
No-one who wishes to get a sense of Rosa Luxemburg as a person, both political and private, will regret watching Margarethe von Trotta’s meticulously researched 1986 film of the same name. It is available with English subtitles.
The film begins on December 7 1916 with Luxemburg in Vronke prison, cutting back to this location again and again.
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