
Fritz Weineck, a worker′s son from Halle, loves music – and dreams to make a living out of it one day. When his friend Alfons, a World War I veteran, gives him a trumpet as a gift, Fritz seems to come closer to fulfil his dream. But then, Fritz realizes that after the end of the German empire workers still have to desperately fight for their rights, and decides to use his instrument for political means: At a meeting of militant workers, he uses his trumpet as a signal horn. But Fritz suffers a severe setback when a comrade dies in the fight for an arms depot because of his fault.

as Fritz Weineck

as Paul Hepner

as Käthe Mielfe

as Georg Füllbrink

as Walter Ebersdorf

as Lene Langner

as Kleckchen

as Karl Borsdorff

as Anna Weineck

as Alfons Wieland

as Gustav Merseburg

as Pietzker

as Ebersdorf

as Füllbrink

as Langner

as Bodendiek

as Brauer

as Heinrich

as Jule

as Trude

as Ernst Thälmann

as Freikorps

as Freikorpsmann

as Leutnant

as Wachposten

as Stiernackiger Industrieller

as Maurer