April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.
as Oberstaatsanwalt Dr. Wilhelm Schramm
as Rudi Kleinschmidt
as Lissy Flemming
as Hildegard Schramm
as Otto Kugler
as Hessel
as Generalstaatsanwalt
as Landgerichtspräsident Diefenbach
as Defense Counsel
as Schramms Stiefsohn Werner
as Haase
as Manfred Schramm
as Erna
as Paul
as Karl
as Graumann
as Reporter
