1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means certain death. The priest leaves his room to a captain so that he can meet his fiancée one last time. He himself remains in Baranowski's cell and struggles with his conscience and his emotion - even more so when he learns that the young doomed man committed desertion out of love. But the execution is carried out, and a member of the firing squad finds only cynical words for the soldier's fate.
Ulla Jacobsson
as Melanie
Bernhard Wicki
as Priest Brunner
Hansjörg Felmy
as Fedor Baranowski
Anneli Sauli
as Ljuba
Erik Schumann
as Hauptmann von Arnim
Werner Hinz
as Oberleutnant Ernst
Albert Bessler
as
Peter Esser
as Zahlmeister
Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum
as
Richard Münch
as Kriegsgerichtsrat
Joseph Offenbach
as Untersuchungsrichter
Werner Peters
as
