This film is set in a medieval mill town in the Harz mountains. The greedy and brutal millman and his accomplices, the castle steward and the mayor, set fire to a forest mill that the farmers used for processing their grain. Without their mill, the farmers must now rely on the millman's services. When the farmhand Anna uncovers the millman’s crimes, he swiftly detains her and a young miller, Jörg. The forest spirits have a different plan, however, and they free the young couple with the charge to rebuild the ruined forest mill and turn things around for the villagers.
Eva Kotthaus
Hans-Peter Minetti
Willy A. Kleinau
Werner Peters
Gerhard Frei
Heinz Kammer
Johannes Arpe
Marianne Rudolph
Jupp Stauder
Gertrud Paulun
Hans Klering
Lotte Loebinger
Werner Tronjeck
Kurt Ulrich
Georg Niemann
Trude Brentina
Brigitte Lindenberg
Alfred Maack
Aribert Grimmer
Willy Semmelrogge
Wolf von Beneckendorff
Johannes Maus
Kurt Sperling
Günther Rettschlag
Uwe Müller
Helmuth Fiedler
Renate Schwetasch
Hedwig Appel
Willi Endresser