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A portrait of the poet and declared anarchist Erich Mühsam who fought persistently for the liberation of political prisoners as well as against the centralism of the Communist Party. At the same time he wrote many literary works. The title...See moreA portrait of the poet and declared anarchist Erich Mühsam who fought persistently for the liberation of political prisoners as well as against the centralism of the Communist Party. At the same time he wrote many literary works. The title, "Straddling Two Horses", is taken from a statement by Frank Wedekind about Erich Mühsam, describes the film's view of its hero: a poet for the proletarian revolution who saw himself as an anarchist all his life; an ally and lone fighter who stood up for the liberation of political prisoners in the Red Aid led by Wilhelm Pieck and just as tirelessly fought against the organization and centralism of the Communist Party in his one-man monthly "Fanal". Erich Mühsam was tortured and murdered in the Oranienburg concentration camp in 1934. Written by DEFA See less