On the Faroe Islands, people eke out a meagre existence by catching birds. Merchant Brause pays them little and does a good business. This comes under threat when Dr. Sten Horn suspects that the dangerous annual plague, which kills dozens of inhabitants, is transmitted by birds. Brause forces the people to work anyway and conceals the telegram from the Copenhagen research institute that confirms Horn's suspicions. Horn, supported by his cousin Arne, enlightens the islanders and the greedy Brause can only flee.
Erwin Geschonneck
Willy A. Kleinau
Fritz Diez
Kriemhild Falke
Hans Jungbauer
Aribert Grimmer
Gerd E. Schäfer
Hans Wehrl
Ernst Kahler
Charlotte Küter
Lutz Götz
Georg Kröning
Herbert Richter
Helene Riechers
Käte Alving
Kurt Mikulski
Kurt Mühlhardt
Hans Rose
Rudolf Wessely
Friedrich Gnaß
Walter E. Fuß
Albert Garbe
Johannes Schmidt
Hannelore Wüst
Johannes Bergfeldt
Gustav Püttjer
Sabine Thalbach
Hans Olaf Moser
Edgar Engelmann
Percy Dreger
Walter B. Schulz
Eduard Bornträger
Walter Schramm
Rudolf Klix
Jean Brahn
Werner Buttler
Erich Gühne
Paul R. Henker
Inge Herbrecht
Carla Hoffmann
Käthe Jöken-König
Willy Kaiser-Heyl
Heinz Keuneke
Gertrud Paulun
Hans Schille
Otto Sommer
Jochen Thomas
Nico Turoff
Walter Weinacht
Georg Helge
Werner Uschkurat