
The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.

as Julia Deutschmann

as Ernst Deutschmann

as Hauptfeldwebel Krüll

as Dr. Kukill

as Oberleutnant Barth

as Hauptmann Barth

as Wiedeck

as Kronberg

as Oberleutnant Bevern

as Tanja

as Karl Schwannecke

as Gottfried von Bartlitz

as Stabsarzt Dr. Bergen

as Assistenzarzt Martienzen