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.

Top Cast

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