Film
One Wednesday in June – 20 Years Ago: People’s Uprising, Workers’ Revolt or Secret Services Putsch?
1973 · 1h · Documentary
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Overview
What happened in the GDR on 17 June 1953? Using a lot of original footage, Norddeutscher Rundfunk looks back on the events in a detailed report marking their 20th anniversary and shows different interpretations and explanations. Agent coup? Workers’ revolt? Popular uprising? The interpretations were controversial, even among contemporary witnesses and Western historians.
Crew
- Lutz LehmannDirector
Details
- Release date
- December 1, 1973
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- German
- Runtime
- 1h
- Genres
- Documentary
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