Union der festen Hand

Union der festen Hand (1979)

Drama

Erik Reger’s roman à clef examines the development of the Rhineland industrial region from 1918 to 1928, using the Risch-Zander steelworks as a case study: Strikes, the Emperor’s visit, revolution, workers’ and soldiers’ councils, the occupation of the Ruhr, the fighting following the Kapp Putsch, and inflation characterize the desperate situation of the industrial proletariat. The content cannot be retold: it is not about individuals, but at best about sociologically balanced specimens of a species. It is about the sociocultural complex of the Ruhr region, about heavy industry as its organizing center; it is about those involved, from the laborers to the managers; and finally, about the political parties, from the KPD to the NSDAP.

Director: Claus Peter Witt

Casts

	Dieter Laser as Adam Griguszies
	Eva Mattes as Paula Griguszies
	Hannes Messemer as von Zander
	Gert Haucke as
	Edith Schultze-Westrum as Ella Risch
	Susanne Beck as
	Gernot Endemann as
	Karl-Heinz Vosgerau as
	Klaus Herm as
	Gerhart Lippert as
	Dietmar Mues as
	Hans Helmut Dickow as
	Ulrich von Dobschütz as

Crew