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
