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.
Sonja Ziemann
as Julia Deutschmann
Georg Thomas
as Ernst Deutschmann
Werner Peters
as Hauptfeldwebel Krüll
Ernst Schröder
as Dr. Kukill
Heinz Weiss
as Oberleutnant Barth
Kurd Pieritz
as Hauptmann Barth
Georg Lehn
as Wiedeck
Gerd Frickhöffer
as Kronberg
Klaus Kindler
as Oberleutnant Bevern
Judith Dornys
as Tanja
Hanns Ernst Jäger
as Karl Schwannecke
Werner Hessenland
as Gottfried von Bartlitz
