The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
Heinrich George
as Jean Jaurès
Albert Bassermann
as Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
Eugen Klöpfer
as Franz Joseph I.
Oskar Homolka
as Sergei Dmitrijewitsch Sasonow
Lucie Höflich
as Alexandra
Hans Peppler
as Count Pourtales
Alfred Abel
as Leopold Graf Berchtold
Theodor Loos
as Paléologue
Fritz Alberti
as Buchanan
Heinrich Schroth
as Erich von Falkenhayn
Reinhold Schünzel
as Nikolaus II.
Fritz Odemar
as Lichnowsky
