Hammer or Anvil

Hammer or Anvil

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 8, 1972

Runtime

2h 37m

Genres

Drama, Crime

Original Title

Наковалня или чук

Production Companies

DEFA, Mosfilm, Boyana Film

Director

Christo Christov

Description

This is a political picture about the Bulgarian revolutionary Georgi Dimitrov. In 1933 during the Reichstag Fire Trial trumped-up charges of having set the Reichstag on fire were brought against him. At the trial Dimitrov exposed the machinations of the Nazis and turned from a defendant into an accuser. Central to the story is the face-to-face political duel between Dimitrov and Goering. Dimitrov's interactions with ordinary Germans, the memories of his wife Lyuba Ivoshevich, and the meetings with his mother Parashkeva alternate with documentary shooting scenes from the time of Nazi Germany.