July 1944: at a fascist front school in occupied Greece, Captain Weirauch, a civilian professor of classical Greek studies, gives a lecture on guilt and atonement in Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the King.
Alfred Müller
as Hauptmann Dr. Karl Weirauch
Andreas Bock
as Soldat Pauli
Michael Christian
as Soldat Sühlke
Gerhard Bienert
as Oberst von Seckentorff
Marga Legal
as Gräfin von Seckentorff
Hannjo Hasse
as Oberfeldwebel
Jürgen Hentsch
as Deutscher Offizier