Overview
The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich.
Cast
- Brigitte Horney as Anna
- Willy Birgel as Keith
- Iván Petrovich as Jan
- Carl Wery as Martin
- Reinhold Lütjohann as Wegner
- Gerd Høst as Marianne Wegner
- Arthur Fritz Eugens as Paul Wegner
- Nicolas Koline as Andreas
- Hedwig Wangel as Liska
- Hannes Keppler as Hans Martin