The action takes place in a central German town in the 1920s. A Jewish factory owner is accused of murdering his accountant. The German nationalist investigating judge, who is determined to have a Jewish perpetrator, still sees Blum as the perpetrator even when evidence of the actual murderer, a former Freikorp fighter, is found. The Social Democratic court president from Berlin sends a criminal investigator to tear apart the judge's chain of evidence.
as Karlheinz Gabler
as Dr. Jakob Blum
as Sabine Blum
as Christina Burmann
as Hans Fischer
as Wilhelm Platzer
as Anna Platzer
as Frieda Bremer
as Erwin Tischbein
as Regierungspräsident Wilschinsky
as Kriminalkommissar Schwerdtfeger
