Emma Freese is desperate when her husband Alfred falls ill at the Howaldtswerke in Kiel. How is the family supposed to get by without their wages? The war has scarred this generation, but now things are supposed to be looking up. The workers want their fair share and are fighting for an income that also gives them room to live. In October 1956, 34,000 metalworkers in the shipyards and factories of Schleswig-Holstein walk off the job to fight for justice and their dignity. This strike is still regarded as the toughest and longest in Germany. Employers and politicians stand in the strikers' way.
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as Anni Wadle
as Hein Wadle
as Adolf Westphal
as Julius Bredenbeck
as Herbert Sührig
as Josef Schiml
as Werner
as Holger
as Mrs. Schmede
as Heinz Ruhnau
as Hans Bilstein
as Mrs. Wielemann
as Hans Georg Schütte
as Hansen
as Helmut
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as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
