
92 minutes
6/30/1961
March, 1945: The insecure and hesitant reserve lieutenant Felix Bleck receives orders to lead a transport of 40 prisoners to the Western Front, where the men are to be burned up in a punishment battalion. On the way there, Bleck realizes the inhuman futility of his assignment and makes a fateful decision.

Hannes Messemer
as Leutnant Bleck

Armin Dahlen
as Feldwebel Steinlein
Peter Herzog
as Unteroffizier Brix

Inge Langen
as Helga Burghardt
Eva Katharina Schultz
as Susanne Westphal
Helmo Kindermann
as Leutnant Thomsteg

Kurd Pieritz
as Oberleutnant Schwerdtfuß
Leo Bieber
as Major Krugstein
Horst Keitel
as Unteroffizier Mahlmann
Andreas Wolf
as Dr. Born

Benno Hoffmann
as Ketten-Charly
Heinrich Gies
as Lohmann

Horst Naumann
as Zobel

Wolfgang Völz
as Jansen
Johannes Grossmann
as Schramm

Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann
as Wirbel

Kurt Jaggberg
Manfred Meurer
Helmut Peine
Karl-Otto Alberty
Kunibert Gensichen
Klaus Jepsen

Paul Klinger
as Narrator (voice)
Günther Mehrholz
Rainer Rudolph

Henning Schlüter

Helmut Wildt