The subject of this historical drama is a splintering Berlin in the years of 1948 and 1949. Played against the backdrop of social upheaval, the characters in the drama come to epitomize the best and worst of each pole of the political sphere. A 17-year-old hoodlum by the name of Gladow works hand-in-glove with a local white-collar criminal to rob and pillage every day and night, defying capture. While he and his gang of thugs are terrorizing the people of Berlin, the Soviets are trying to make the blockade of their region of control impermeable. The future casts long shadows over the drama, as Berlin's problems take the shape of times to come.
Hilmar Thate
as Gustav Völpel
Katharina Thalbach
as Lisa Gabler
Ulrich Wesselmann
as Gladow
Ilse Pagé
as Frau Gerti Völpel
Karin Baal
as Frau Lucie Gladow
Peter Brombacher
as Schäfer
Klaus Pohl
as Gabler
Hanns Zischler
as Ridzinski
Horst Laube
as Herr Gladow
Jürgen Flimm
as Westkommissar
Kurt Raab
as Chauffeur
Michael Danisch
as
