
85 minutes
11/5/1964
Fritz Weineck, a worker′s son from Halle, loves music – and dreams to make a living out of it one day. When his friend Alfons, a World War I veteran, gives him a trumpet as a gift, Fritz seems to come closer to fulfil his dream. But then, Fritz realizes that after the end of the German empire workers still have to desperately fight for their rights, and decides to use his instrument for political means: At a meeting of militant workers, he uses his trumpet as a signal horn. But Fritz suffers a severe setback when a comrade dies in the fight for an arms depot because of his fault.

Horst Jonischkan
as Fritz Weineck

Erik Veldre
as Paul Hepner

Doris Abeßer
as Käthe Mielfe

Ezard Haußmann
as Georg Füllbrink

Jürgen Frohriep
as Walter Ebersdorf

Traudl Kulikowsky
as Lene Langner

Fred Delmare
as Kleckchen

Wolfgang Greese
as Karl Borsdorff

Helga Göring
as Anna Weineck

Rolf Römer
as Alfons Wieland

Bruno Carstens
as Gustav Merseburg

Hannjo Hasse
as Pietzker
Horst Friedrich
as Ebersdorf
Hannes Fischer
as Füllbrink
Werner Wieland
as Langner

Hans Klering
as Bodendiek

Nico Turoff
as Brauer
Werner Kamenik
as Heinrich

Hans-Edgar Stecher
as Jule
Erika Stiska
as Trude

Günther Simon
as Ernst Thälmann
Albert Zahn
as Freikorps
Fritz Mohr
as Freikorpsmann

Jochen Diestelmann
as Leutnant

Hilmar Baumann
as Wachposten
Fredy Barten
as Stiernackiger Industrieller

Werner Senftleben
as Maurer