Overview
The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.
Cast
- Sonja Ziemann as Julia Deutschmann
- Georg Thomas as Ernst Deutschmann
- Werner Peters as Hauptfeldwebel Krüll
- Ernst Schröder as Dr. Kukill
- Heinz Weiss as Oberleutnant Barth
- Kurd Pieritz as Hauptmann Barth
- Georg Lehn as Wiedeck
- Gerd Frickhöffer as Kronberg
- Klaus Kindler as Oberleutnant Bevern
- Judith Dornys as Tanja