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A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.Read moreLess
A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.
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A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.
Watch trailerCast & crew
Günther SimonErich Steigert
Raimund SchelcherAugust Lenz
Ulrich TheinHenne Lobke
Horst KubeJens Kasten
Hilmar ThateLudwig Batuschek
Jochen ThomasSebastian Huber
Sabine ThalbachLady from Luisenbund
Horst SchönemannKapitän WandresExplore the crew
- Director
- Kurt Maetzig
- Editor
- Lena Neumann
- Writer
- Paul Wiens
- Director
- Günter Reisch
- Writer
- Karl Georg Egel
- Director of Photography
- Joachim Hasler
- Director of Photography
- Otto Merz