This documentary communicates the importance of Thomas Müntzer for East Germany in the late 1980s. The film crew visited important sites to convey the life of the powerfully eloquent theologian and radical preacher of the Reformation, who became the leader of the Peasants’ Uprising. This documentary covers the central events in Thomas Müntzer’s life, from his birth in Stolberg, Thuringia in 1489, to his execution in 1525.