24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police officers chat about their personal lives, take care of petty offence and at most, warn the odd rubbernecker away from the border to the “Soviet zone”. Meanwhile their East German counterparts are under enormous pressure. The day begins with disciplinary action after one of the border guards was found sleeping on duty. The supervisors demand utmost vigilance and a solid ideological bent, and suspicion and mistrust are the rule within the ranks of these soldiers of the National People’s Army (NVA). Unnoticed by the soldiers, four East Berlin students are preparing to flee to the west. But in the morning mists, only their accomplice, an NVA private, succeeds …
Lutz Mackensy
as Grüttner
Fritz Hollenbeck
as Firzlaff
Franz Rudnick
as Politstellvertreter
Edgar Bessen
as Postenführer
Eberhard Fechner
as Pierott
Henning Venske
as Student
Rolf Schimpf
as Berliner Schutzpolizeibeamter
Georg Eilert
as
Ortwin Speer
as
Jochen Genscher
as
Peter Müller
as
Joachim Richert
as
