Overview
April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.
Cast
Martin Held
Oberstaatsanwalt Dr. Wilhelm Schramm
Walter Giller
Rudi Kleinschmidt
Ingrid van Bergen
Lissy Flemming
Camilla Spira
Hildegard Schramm
Werner Peters
Otto Kugler
Ralf Wolter
Hessel
Wolfgang Preiss
Generalstaatsanwalt
Paul Hartmann
Landgerichtspräsident Diefenbach
Wolfgang Wahl
Defense Counsel
Roland Kaiser
Schramms Stiefsohn Werner
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Status
Released
Type
Movie
Director
Wolfgang Staudte
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