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Retrospective 2023
Filmstill One Wednesday in June – 20 Years Ago: People’s Uprising, Workers’ Revolt or Secret Services Putsch?
One Wednesday in June – 20 Years Ago: People’s Uprising, Workers’ Revolt or Secret Services Putsch?
Lutz Lehmann
Workers’ revolt or popular uprising? Or an attempted Western coup after all? 20 years after 17 June 1953, a television report looks for answers. The interpretations remain open.
1973
Filmstill One Wednesday in June – 20 Years Ago: People’s Uprising, Workers’ Revolt or Secret Services Putsch?

One Wednesday in June – 20 Years Ago: People’s Uprising, Workers’ Revolt or Secret Services Putsch?

Ein Mittwoch im Juni – Vor 20 Jahren: Volksaufstand, Arbeiterrevolte oder Agentenputsch?
Lutz Lehmann
Retrospective 2023
Documentary Film
FRG
1973
60 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

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.

Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

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Director
Lutz Lehmann
Cinematographer
Hans Jacob
Editor
Elke Düring
Producer
NDR Norddeutscher Rundfunk / German TV ARD Network
Sound
Jürgen Jannsen, Norbert Kinsky