The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.
Sonja Ziemann
Georg Thomas
Werner Peters
Ernst Schröder
Heinz Weiss
Kurd Pieritz
Georg Lehn
Gerd Frickhöffer
Klaus Kindler
Judith Dornys
Hanns Ernst Jäger
Werner Hessenland
Alfred Balthoff
Peter Schiff