After the end of World War II Lüder Lüdersen, the former owner of a feudal estate in the East, and his daughter Helga arrive as refugees in the Lüneburg Heath. While living a seemingly happy life on the estate of his cousin, Lüdersen hides a dark secret: he is a poacher.
Sonja Ziemann
Rudolf Prack
Maria Holst
Willy Fritsch
Hans Stüwe
Otto Gebühr
Margarete Haagen
Hans Richter
Ludwig Schmitz
Kurt Reimann
Oskar Sima
Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann
Herbert Weißbach
Else Reval
Josef Sieber
Karl Finkenzeller
Ernst Waldow
Rolf Weih
Franz-Otto Krüger
Franz Schafheitlin