Overview
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.
Cast
- Uwe Bohm as Otto Pfeng
- Dirk Borchardt as Wächter
- Jan Josef Liefers as Dr. Klaus Kosnitzer
- Florian Lukas as Fritz Schenk
- Michael Kind as Brigadier Metzdorf
- Herbert Knaup as Rudolf Herrnstadt
- Dieter Mann as Wilhelm Zaisser
- Karl Kranzkowski as Parteisekretär Fischer
- Robert Glatzeder as Ernst Stanicke
- Heikko Deutschmann as Gordon Ewing