Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and journalist Rudolf Augstein.
Sebastian Rudolph
as Rudolf Augstein
Francis Fulton-Smith
as Franz Josef Strauß
David Rott
as Conrad Ahlers
Johann von Bülow
as Hans Detlef Becker
Franz Dinda
as Claus Jacobi
Max Hopp
as Leo Brawand
Alexander Held
as Siegfried Buback
Nora Waldstätten
as Elke Maria Carlsson
Franziska Schlattner
as Marianne Strauß
Otto Mellies
as Konrad Adenauer
Michael Schönborn
as Volkmar Hopf
Gesine Cukrowski
as Katharina Augstein
