The armouring soldier and writer Werner Bertin is ordered to the Western Front to France during the First World War. The use before Verdun - with all the horrors of war in the period 1916/1917 - brings a fundamental change of consciousness for the academic from Berlin. The intellectual devoted to bravery by fate develops into a disappointed but rebellious being. He sees more and more the injustices of warlike conflicts and their social causes.
as Werner Bertin
as Leutnant Kroysing
as Hauptmann Niggel
as Wilhelm Pahl
as Karl Lebede
as Unteroffizier Glinski
as Unteroffizier Süßmann
as Christoph Kroysing
as Leutnant Mettner
as Pater Lochner
as Oberst Stein
as Major Jantsch
as Leutnant Mahnitz
as Feldwebel Feicht
as Schweizer Militärschriftsteller
as Unteroffizier Böhme
