Directed by:
Gottfried KolditzScreenplay:
Harald HauserCinematography:
Erich GuskoCast:
Jürgen Frohriep, Hannjo Hasse, Eva-Maria Hagen, Berti Deutsch, Willi Neuenhahn, Werner Lierck, Werner Schulz-Wittan, Trude Bechmann, Hans Schmidt (more)Plots(1)
A masterpiece of moral unease that was also a polemical pointer towards the threat from the possible involvement of Federal Germany and NATO in a nuclear war. A tense combination of military thriller and melodrama, directed by one of the most formally resourceful genre masters at DEFA, this film could never have been made in the same way in West Germany at the time. (Locarno Festival)
(more)Cast
Jürgen Frohriep
German Empire
Best movies:
Stars (1959)
Front Without Flanks (1974)
Spur der Steine (1966)
Hannjo Hasse
German Empire
Best movies:
Higher Principle (1960)
Midnight Mass (1962)
The Gleiwitz Case (1961)
Eva-Maria Hagen
German Empire
Best movies:
Herzlich willkommen (1990)
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child (1988)
Lore (2012)
Berti Deutsch
German Empire
Willi Neuenhahn
German Empire
Best movies:
Aber Doktor (1979) (TV movie)
Das unsichtbare Visier (1973) (series)
Das Kaninchen bin ich (1965)
Werner Lierck
German Empire
Best movies:
Hauptmann Florian von der Mühle (1968)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Werner Schulz-Wittan
German Empire
Best movies:
The Sons of Great Bear (1966)
Trude Bechmann
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Hans Schmidt
Best movies:
Spur der Steine (1966)
Five Cartridges (1960)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Christine Laszar
German Empire
Best movies:
Shchit i mech (1968) (series)
Herbert Dirmoser
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Mountain Calls (1938)
Eolomea (1972)
The Sons of Great Bear (1966)