Berlin at the end of the 1940s. Anneliese Weyher is working as a switchboard operator. She is living with her aunt after losing her parents in the war – a stroke of fate that has thrown the young woman off course emotionally. Indifferently, she is doing her work; her private life consists of an affair with a black-marketeer. Even when Anneliese witnesses an armed robbery, committed by infamous Wollnick and his gang, she stays lethargic and apathetic – she keeps silent instead of helping the inspector who is a friend of her aunt. It is not until Anneliese by coincidence meets her former lover, the watchmaker Kurt, that her life seems to take a positive turn.

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Cast

Katja Paryla

Martha Menzel

Dieter Franke

Albert Neuenfeld

Peter Prager

Kurt Danneberg

Helga Göring

Edith Radicke

Peter Reusse

Dieter Wollnick

Detlef Gieß

Michael Gerber

Walter Lendrich

Carl Heinz Choynski

Rainer Doering

Jörg Panknin

Norbert Stöß