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One Wednesday in June – 20 Years Ago: People’s Uprising, Workers’ Revolt or Secret Services Putsch? (1973)
Directed by Lutz Lehmann
Documentary · 1h 00m
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
- Director
- Lutz Lehmann
Details
- Original title
- Ein Mittwoch im Juni – Vor 20 Jahren: Volksaufstand, Arbeiterrevolte oder Agentenputsch?
- Release date
- 1973-12-01
- Runtime
- 1h 00m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany