After WWII, Berlin lies in ruins. For Gustav, Willi and their friends the rubble provides an adventurous, dangerous playground. Especially for Gustav, it helps pass the time, as he longs for his father's return from a POW camp. One day a stranger arrives, looking helpless and hopeless.
Charles Brauer
as Gustav Iller
Hans Trinkaus
as Willi Schelp
Harry Hindemith
as Paul Iller
Hedda Sarnow
as Grete Iller
Walter Bluhm
as Karl "Kalle" Roper
Hans Leibelt
as Herr Eckmann, artist
Paul Bildt
as Birke
Magdalene von Nußbaum
as Frau Schelp
Siegfried Utecht
as Kapitän
Fritz Rasp
as Waldemar Hunke
Lotte Loebinger
as Frau Steidel
Gerhard Haselbach
as Steidel, the shell-shocked ex-soldier
