91 minutes
11/7/1940
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.
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
Karl-Heinz Peters
as Antek
Beppo Brem
as Wegereit
José Held
as Stach
Friedrich Ettel
as Keller
Ludwig Schmid-Wildy
as Lessing
Walter Holten
as Böhme
Katharina Berger