Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, the paths of three people on the run cross by chance in the small Baltic Sea port of Rerig: Gregor, a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD); Judith, a Jewish woman; and a pastor who wants to save an Ernst Barlach sculpture classified as degenerate art. All those involved share a common fate and the dream of a fisherman's boy from Zanzibar, which is less a real goal than a utopia of a better future. Adaptation of Alfred Andersch's novel.
Peter Kremer
as Gregor
Cornelia Schmaus
as Judith
Gisela Stein
as
Gisela Stein
as Judiths Mutter
Michael Gwisdek
as Heinrich Knudsen
Elisabeth Endriss
as Bertha Knudsen
Peter Sodann
as Pastor Helander
Frank Hessenland
as Schiffsjunge bei Knudsen
Karin Gregorek
as Mutter des Schiffsjungen
Rolf Ludwig
as Gastwirt Paul
Siegfried Voß
as Dr. Frerking
Frieder Venus
as Sven
