Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to become the head of a division—on the condition that he find a reason to fire Zacharias, a communist and the work council chairman.
Cast
Rüdiger Joswig
Harald Walcher
Katja Paryla
Frau Walcher
Brigitte Krause
Mutter Walcher
Jürgen Hentsch
Direktor Stahlberg
Ute Christensen
Junges Mädchen
Günter Schubert
1. Gast
Joachim Trotz
Narrator
Horst Hiemer
Unknown
Gert Krause-Melzer
Günter Walcher (archive footage)
Rolf Ludwig
Unknown
Dorothea Meissner
Christine (archive footage)
Gerd Micheel
Unknown
Viktor Perevalov
Igor (archive footage)
Vsevolod Safonov
Golubkow (archive footage)
Hermann Stövesand
Unknown
Richard Nixon
Self (archive footage)
Kurt-Georg Kiesinger
Self (archive footage)
Crew
Heiner Carow
Director, Writer
Claus Küchenmeister
Writer
Hermann Herlinghaus
Writer
Evelyn Carow
Editor
Jürgen Brauer
Director of Photography
Siegfried Kabitzke
Producer
Dieter Dormeier
Producer
Werner Bergemann
Costume Design
Ursula Strumpf
Costume Design
Peter Gotthardt
Music
Dietrich Kittner
Music
Alfred Thomalla
Set Designer