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.

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Cast

Klaus Piontek

Werner Bertin

Milan Neděla

Hauptmann Niggel

Dietmar Richter-Reinick

Wilhelm Pahl

Jürgen Hentsch

Karl Lebede

Carl Heinz Choynski

Unteroffizier Glinski

Uwe Kockisch

Christoph Kroysing

Klaus-Peter Thiele

Leutnant Mettner

Klaus Manchen

Pater Lochner

Ralph Boettner

Oberst Stein

Paul Arenkens

Major Jantsch

Egon Günther

Leutnant Mahnitz

Hans-Dieter Schlegel

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