Der Aufstand
movie
Released June 03, 2003
Genres:
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
Axel Buchholz
as
Horst Schlaffke
Günter Junghans
as
Walter Ulbricht
