Die Weber

Story

Synopsis

The emaciated weavers deliver their homework to the factory owner Dreißiger and receive their wages, on which they cannot live and cannot die. Driven by hunger, they ask for more money, but to no avail. Only the young baker and the reservist Jäger put up a fight, and both manage to encourage a large group of weavers to revolt against the factory owner. They break into his house and destroy it, whereupon he flees. The revolt continues, the weavers move through the surrounding villages, where more people join them. A little later, the military arrives to intervene against the angry crowd and restore the old order...

Director

Hubert Hoelzke

Writers

Gerhart Hauptmann

Language

German

Country

Germany, East Germany

Release date

1 November 1962

Ensemble

Cast

• Wolfgang Sasse

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  Ralph Boettner

• Hans Pitra

• Rudolf Horn

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  Walter Richter-Reinick

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  Günter Naumann

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  Manfred Borges

• Fritz Links

• Fritz Hofbauer

• Otto Dierichs

• Liska Merbach

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  Sabine Thalbach