Based on an authentic case from the 1920s. The head country constable Heinz Lippert arrests the Polish farm worker Jakubowski on suspicion of murdering a child - his adopted son. Although he has insufficient evidence, public prosecutor Becker takes the case to court. Jakubowski is sentenced to death, the "Polish murderer" fits in with the propaganda of the time. Lippert, encouraged by the communist editor Hartmann, tries to prevent the sentence from being carried out and even investigates the real perpetrator. In vain, the death sentence was carried out prematurely. After the Nazis seized power, the public prosecutor, now an SS leader, had the men who had uncovered the true facts arrested. Lippert joins the underground resistance.
Cast
Günther Simon
Heinz Lippert
Johanna Clas
Lotte Lippert
Wojciech Siemion
Josef Jakubowski
Karla Runkehl
Dora Mettner
Manja Behrens
Frau Nogens
Wilhelm Koch-Hooge
Unknown
Horst Schönemann
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Erik S. Klein
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Fred Delmare
August Nogens
Rudolf Ulrich
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Harry Gillmann
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Kurt Steingraf
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Johannes Arpe
Von Pätow
Charlotte Friedrich
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Otto Krieg Helbig
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Gertrud Brendler
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Annegret Golding
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Peter Groeger
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Horst Friedrich
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Siegfried Weiß
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Herbert Dirmoser
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Paul Berndt
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Hans Flössel
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Karl-Heinz Weiss
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Marita Böhme
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Rudolf Christoph
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Harald Grünert
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Friedrich Teitge
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Axel Triebel
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Willi Neuenhahn
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Hans Sievers
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Hans-Joachim Engelmann
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