An army war school during the WWII: first Lieutenant Krafft has a strong sense of justice. This has often brought him into disrepute with his previous superiors and he has been transferred several times as a result. With his new position in an officer's school, he hopes to survive the war and tries to avoid further conflicts. However, Krafft is entrusted with an investigation by his general - a supervising officer has been blown to pieces by an explosive charge during an engineer exercise. Although the chief field judge rules the man's death an accident, Krafft reconstructs the events and proves that it was a case of murder. Ensign Hochbauer, who was in the party's favor, is said to have deliberately shortened the fuse during the explosive exercise, as a result of which the supervising officer was unable to get to safety in time.
Helmut Griem
as Oberleutnant Krafft
Horst Frank
as Hauptmann Feder
Carl Lange
as Generalmajor Modersohn
Peter Carsten
as Hauptmann Katers
Erik Schumann
as Hauptmann Rathshelm
Karl John
as Major Frey
Paul Edwin Roth
as Oberfeldrichter Wirrmann
Folker Bohnet
as Fähnrich Böhmke
Margitta Scherr
as Irene Jablonski
Roger Fritz
as Fähnrich Andreas
Hans Paetsch
as
Xenia Pörtner
as Marion Feder
