Der Aufstand

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.

• Hans-Christoph BlumenbergDirector

• Uwe BohmOtto Pfeng
• Dirk BorchardtWächter
• Jan Josef LiefersDr. Klaus Kosnitzer
• Florian LukasFritz Schenk
• Michael KindBrigadier Metzdorf
• Herbert KnaupRudolf Herrnstadt
• Dieter MannWilhelm Zaisser
• Karl KranzkowskiParteisekretär Fischer
• Robert GlatzederErnst Stanicke
• Heikko DeutschmannGordon Ewing
• Axel BuchholzHorst Schlaffke
• Günter JunghansWalter Ulbricht