2. The Simple Thing That Is Hard to Do (2019)
German playwright Bertolt Brecht's last years, from his return to Germany in 1948 to his death in 1956.
Release date: 2019-03-22
Season number: 1
Episode number: 2
Runtime: 90 minutes
Director: Heinrich Breloer
Writer: Heinrich Breloer
Guest stars
Franz Dinda
as Egon Monk
Laura de Boer
as Isot Kilian
Maria Dragus
as Regine Lutz
Ernst Stötzner
as Caspar Neher
Vincent Redetzki
as Martin Pohl
Karolina Horster
as Käthe Rülicke
Anna Herrmann
as Käthe Reichel
Thomas Meinhardt
as Wilhelm Girnus
Maximilian Klas
as Manfred Wekwerth
Petra Bučková
as Gerda Goedhart
Götz Schubert
as Ernst Busch
Regine Lutz
as Herself - Actress
Charles Laughton
as Galileo (voice)
Walter Ulbricht
as Himself (archive footage)
Joseph Stalin
as Himself (archive footage)
Cast
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Matthias Rheinheimer - Paul Albert Krumm, Michal Dudek - Palitzsch, Marie Luise Stahl - Angelika Hurwicz, Jaroslava Laufenová - Elisabeth Hauptmann, Jan Šantroch - Kamper, Egon Monk - Himself (archive footage), Martin Pohl - Himself (archive footage)