Uprisings in the Soviet Sphere of Influence
Aufstände im sowjetischen Machtbereich
Ralph Giordano, Hans-Ulrich Barth
Retrospective 2023
Documentary Film
FRG
1961
24 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None
The history of communism as the story of its crises: The two authors Ralph Giordano and Hans-Ulrich Barth take up various uprisings and protests to demonstrate the discrepancy between the claim to power and the reality in “socialist imperialism.” A more nuanced light is shed on individual uprisings, while at the same time feeding into stereotypical Cold War images of the enemy.
Credits
Director
Ralph Giordano, Hans-Ulrich Barth
Producer
NDR Norddeutscher Rundfunk / German TV ARD Network