The two-piece black and white movie "Brennende Ruhr" portrays the events during the Kapp-Putsch 1920 in a small german town in the Ruhr district. The main protagonist is Ernst Sukrow, a student who sympathises first with the bourgeois forces but finally decided to join the communists in their fight.
Klaus Bamberg
Hans-Peter Reinecke
Willi Narloch
Annelie Scheinert
Vera Oelschlegel
Wolfgang Greese
Wilhelm Koch-Hooge
Werner Senftleben
Edwin Marian
Thomas Neumann
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
Peter Sturm
Joachim Fuchs
Willi Schrade
Ezard Haußmann
Angelika Waller
Erich Gerberding
Berthold Schulze
Fred Mahr
Günter Drescher
Günter Wolf
Hans Fiebrandt
Christoph Engel
Helmut Schellhardt
Günter Junghans
Gerhard Hänsel
Johannes Wieke
Erich Alexander Winds
Karel Enzmann
Karl-Richard Schmidt
Erhard Köster
Peter Kalisch
Günter Schubert
Joachim Konrad
Paul Berndt
Ursula Braun
Lothar Förster
Günther Polensen
Werner Kamenik
Manfred Ott
Walter E. Fuß