Es geht durch die Welt ein Geflüster

November 7, 1918: Revolutionary night in Munich. After a large demonstration, Kurt Eisner leads the crowd to the barracks. The war-weary soldiers immediately defect. The king and his entourage flee. Without bloodshed, the Free State of Bavaria is born. Subsequently, revolutionary and reactionary forces fight for power with all means. Eisner is assassinated. Two soviet republics are short-lived. The young democracy is vulnerable and fails, is bloodily crushed. It goes through the world a whisper was made in 1988 and interweaves contemporary film documents and interviews. The audience includes contemporary witnesses from the anarchist, communist and socialist spectrum who were already very old at the time, such as Benno Scharmanski, Centa Herker, Hugo Jakusch, Sophie Radischnigg, Minna Dittenheber, Emil Meier and Peter Lichtinger.