In 1929 Berlin, the progressive editor-in-chief Bornstein is on trial for libel. An article in his magazine attempted to uncover the role that Reichsanwalt Jörns had played ten years earlier in the "clarification" of the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. The article explained that the then court martial judge knowingly covered up for the murderers and delayed the trial. At the trial, the testimony of witnesses succeeded in proving the truth of the publication and exposing those behind the murders as those who were preparing fascism.
as Jörns
as Pabst
as Runge
as Liepmann
as Vogel
as Kapitänleutnant Pflugk-Harttung
as Hauptmann Pflugk-Harttung
as Hofmann
as Lautenberg
as Oberst von Winsen
as Deepenthal
as Gerichtsvorsitzender
as Verteidiger
as Generalstaatsanwalt
as Anna Bälger
as Wegmann
as Ruch
as Herr Lautenberg sen.
as Frau Lautenberg
as Geschäftsführer
