A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.
Günther Simon
Raimund Schelcher
Ulrich Thein
Horst Kube
Hilmar Thate
Ekkehard Schall
Wolf von Beneckendorff
Eduard von Winterstein
Werner Wieland
Jochen Thomas
Sabine Thalbach
Horst Schönemann
Rolf Römer
Hans Wolf Rentzow
Elfriede Née
Peter Kiwitt
Wolfgang Langhoff
Stefan Lisewski
Rita Gödikmeier
Vladimir Gulyaev
Hans Finohr
Adolf Peter Hoffmann
Wolfgang Brunecker
Walter E. Fuß
Werner Lierck
Fred Düren
Willi Neuenhahn
Kurt Wenkhaus
Monika Lennartz
Kay Sikor
Manfred Müller
Karl Brenk
Kurt Steingraf
Senta Bonacker
Max Klingberg
Siegfried Weiß
Yuri Mikhajlov
Christoph Beyertt
Heinz Kögel
Helmut Schreiber
Günther Grabbert
Johannes Wieke
Dom de Beern
Horst Lommatzsch
Karl Heinz Oppel
Gabriele Hoffmann
Werner Senftleben
Peter A. Stiege
Hans-Hartmut Krüger
Klaus Gendries
Theresia Wider
Karin Buchali
Horst Buder
Jean Brahn
Paul Funk
Hans Feldner
Karl Sturm
Nico Turoff
Rolf Ripperger
Georg Helge
Fred Ludwig
Fred Delmare
Klaus Bamberg
Reinhard Michalke
Peter Dommisch
Alexander Papendiek
Kurt Rackelmann
Erich Fritze
Maria Besendahl
Carola Braunbock
Liselott Baumgarten
Fritz Mohr