190 minutes
6/22/1975
Karl Maiwald, a Dortmund auto mechanic, struggles amid neighbor disputes and family tension. Discovering his company’s clandestine bugging, he exposes management, expecting union backing. Yet the union’s hidden ownership of the firm stuns him, as he realizes the very workers leading protests are its members.

Günter Lamprecht
as Karl Maiwald

Karl-Heinz von Hassel
as Franz Weigel

Claus Theo Gärtner
as Martin Voigt

Ortrud Beginnen
as Elvira Schindler

Siegfried W. Kernen

Günther Neutze
as Grünefeld

Peter Schiff

Klaus Schwarzkopf
as Kühn
Josef Quadflieg

Dieter Schaad
as Borgmann
Wolfgang Grönebaum
Dorothea Moritz
as Angelika Maiwald
Léonie Thelen
as Karin Maiwald

Heinz Schimmelpfennig
as Fritz Kollmann
Günther Heising
as Direktor Faber
Wolfgang Grönebaum
as Schöller
Hermann Günther
as Rahner

Hans Schulze
as Dr. Schulze
Giuseppe Coniglio ...
as Angelo

Claus Fuchs
Joachim Hackethal

Jochen Stern

Tilo Prückner
Theo Pöppinghaus
Heinz Wildhagen
Rudolf Voss