Synopsis
June 17, 1953 - the day on which workers in the former Soviet Union took a stand against their government for the first time to protest against excessive labor standards. The protests escalated into a political uprising, which was only ended by the Soviet army using tanks. 50 years later, the docudrama "The Uprising" captivatingly depicts the historical events of those days that threatened to unhinge the SED system.
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Uwe Bohm
Otto Pfeng
Dirk Borchardt
Wächter
Jan Josef Liefers
Dr. Klaus Kosnitzer
Florian Lukas
Fritz Schenk
Michael Kind
Brigadier Metzdorf
Herbert Knaup
Rudolf Herrnstadt
Dieter Mann
Wilhelm Zaisser
Karl Kranzkowski
Parteisekretär Fischer
Robert Glatzeder
Ernst Stanicke
Heikko Deutschmann
Gordon Ewing
Axel Buchholz
Horst Schlaffke
Günter Junghans
Walter Ulbricht