A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try to take advantage of him, he soon finds his position politically sensitive, and gets caught up in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers.
Jean-Marc Barr
as Leopold Kessler
Barbara Sukowa
as Katharina Hartmann
Udo Kier
as Lawrence Hartmann
Ernst-Hugo Järegård
as Uncle Kessler
Erik Mørk
as Pater
Jørgen Reenberg
as Max Hartmann
Henning Jensen
as Siggy
Eddie Constantine
as Colonel Harris
Max von Sydow
as Narrator (voice)
Benny Poulsen
as Steleman
Erno Müller
as Seifert
Dietrich Kuhlbrodt
as Inspector
