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.
Klaus Piontek
as Werner Bertin
Benjamin Besson
as Leutnant Kroysing
Milan Neděla
as Hauptmann Niggel
Dietmar Richter-Reinick
as Wilhelm Pahl
Jürgen Hentsch
as Karl Lebede
Carl Heinz Choynski
as Unteroffizier Glinski
Axel Dietrich
as Unteroffizier Süßmann
Uwe Kockisch
as Christoph Kroysing
Klaus-Peter Thiele
as Leutnant Mettner
Klaus Manchen
as Pater Lochner
Ralph Boettner
as Oberst Stein
Paul Arenkens
as Major Jantsch
