Germany in May 1945: the war is over, men are returning home and a new life begins in the villages. After 12 years in a concentration camp, the "Red Shoemaker" also returns to his home village. His wife is dead and others live in his house: Gebhardt, an employee on the farm of the large farmer Winter, and his family. The "Red Shoemaker" comes to stay with Hübner and his daughter Agnes. Over the past terrible years, he had repeatedly felt the hatred within him and wanted to take revenge on those who had sent him to the concentration camp. But now he wants to look to the future and takes on the position of mayor here in the village. He works to ensure that the village is supplied with food and tries to ensure that the fascist ideology disappears from people's minds. In doing so, he also makes enemies.
Erwin Geschonneck
as Roter Schuster
Karl Kendzia
as Hübner
Gudrun Ritter
as Agnes
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
as Gebhardt
Kaspar Eichel
as Georg
Ellinor Vogel
as Frau Winter
Kurt Kachlicki
as Arthur
Katja Paryla
as Edith
Lissy Tempelhof
as Gräfin von Waalen
Katja Kuhl
as Frau Wirsing
Fred Delmare
as Höhne
Rudolf Ulrich
as Göttermann
