Life on the border to the GDR is as dreary as the "Werra-Post". To increase circulation, Willi Busch, reporter and heir to the local paper, takes action: sometimes he demolishes telephone boxes, sometimes he fantasizes a child into a prophetess who talks to sheep. Only when he fakes a dead man's past as an informer does Willi's paper corpses suddenly become real...
Tilo Prückner
as Willi Busch
Kornelia Boje
as Rose-Marie Roth
Dorothea Moritz
as Adelheid Busch
Karin Frey
as Helga
Jenny Thelen
as Aenne
Hannes Kaetner
as Sir Henry
Klaus Hoser
as Arno Rösler
Wolfgang Grönebaum
as Jupp Müller
Christoph Lindert
as Poradzki
Karl Sibold
as Rektor
Hans-Jürgen Leuthen
as Bürgermeister
Horst Pasderski
as Gerlach
