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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? (1973)
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.
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Pretty Good
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Good start, but then it gets ruined
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A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
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It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.
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