Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and journalist Rudolf Augstein.
as Rudolf Augstein
as Franz Josef Strauß
as Conrad Ahlers
as Hans Detlef Becker
as Claus Jacobi
as Leo Brawand
as Siegfried Buback
as Elke Maria Carlsson
as Marianne Strauß
as Konrad Adenauer
as Volkmar Hopf
as Katharina Augstein
as Josef Augstein
as Oberst Martin
as Frau Jacobi
as Sekretärin
as Hans Globke
