
163 minutes
12/13/1987
Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the paths of three people on the run cross by chance in the small Baltic Sea port of Rerig: Gregor, a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD); Judith, a Jewish woman; and a pastor who wants to save an Ernst Barlach sculpture classified as degenerate art. All those involved share a common fate and the dream of a fisherman's boy from Zanzibar, which is less a real goal than a utopia of a better future. Adaptation of Alfred Andersch's novel.

Peter Kremer
as Gregor

Cornelia Schmaus
as Judith

Gisela Stein

Gisela Stein
as Judiths Mutter

Michael Gwisdek
as Heinrich Knudsen
Elisabeth Endriss
as Bertha Knudsen

Peter Sodann
as Pastor Helander
Frank Hessenland
as Schiffsjunge bei Knudsen

Karin Gregorek
as Mutter des Schiffsjungen

Rolf Ludwig
as Gastwirt Paul

Siegfried Voß
as Dr. Frerking
Frieder Venus
as Sven

Ulrich Mühe
as Dr. Grote
Horst Eisele
as Kröger

Dieter Perlwitz
as Kapitän