
109 minutes
2/11/1960
The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.

Sonja Ziemann
as Julia Deutschmann
Georg Thomas
as Ernst Deutschmann

Werner Peters
as Hauptfeldwebel Krüll

Ernst Schröder
as Dr. Kukill

Heinz Weiss
as Oberleutnant Barth

Kurd Pieritz
as Hauptmann Barth

Georg Lehn
as Wiedeck

Gerd Frickhöffer
as Kronberg
Klaus Kindler
as Oberleutnant Bevern

Judith Dornys
as Tanja
Hanns Ernst Jäger
as Karl Schwannecke
Werner Hessenland
as Gottfried von Bartlitz

Alfred Balthoff
as Stabsarzt Dr. Bergen

Peter Schiff
as Assistenzarzt Martienzen