East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Harnack.
Horst Drinda
as Arvid Harnack
Irma Münch
as Mildred Harnack
Horst Schulze
as Adam Kuckhoff
Barbara Adolph
as Greta Kuckhoff
Klaus Piontek
as Harro Schulze-Boysen
Jutta Wachowiak
as Libertas Schulze-Boysen
Eckhard Bilz
as Fähnrich Thierbach
Harry Pietzsch
as Walter Küchenmeister
Karin Lesch
as Elfriede Paul
Marylu Poolman
as Elisabeth Schumacher
Eberhard Esche
as Kurt Schumacher
Katharina Lind
as Oda Schottmüller