March, 1945: The insecure and hesitant reserve lieutenant Felix Bleck receives orders to lead a transport of 40 prisoners to the Western Front, where the men are to be burned up in a punishment battalion. On the way there, Bleck realizes the inhuman futility of his assignment and makes a fateful decision.
as Leutnant Bleck
as Feldwebel Steinlein
as Unteroffizier Brix
as Helga Burghardt
as Susanne Westphal
as Leutnant Thomsteg
as Oberleutnant Schwerdtfuß
as Major Krugstein
as Unteroffizier Mahlmann
as Dr. Born
as Ketten-Charly
as Lohmann
as Zobel
as Jansen
as Schramm
as Wirbel
as Narrator (voice)
