Overview

1958: during the Russian campaign, a military priest is called upon to assist Private Baranowski, who has been sentenced to death for desertion, on his last night. It is also the last night before the departure for Stalingrad, which the soldiers know means certain death. The priest leaves his room to a captain so that he can meet his fiancée one last time. He himself remains in Baranowski's cell and struggles with his conscience and his emotion - even more so when he learns that the young doomed man committed desertion out of love. But the execution is carried out, and a member of the firing squad finds only cynical words for the soldier's fate.

Top Cast

Ulla Jacobsson

Melanie

Bernhard Wicki

Priest Brunner

Hansjörg Felmy

Fedor Baranowski

Anneli Sauli

Ljuba

Erik Schumann

Hauptmann von Arnim

Werner Hinz

Oberleutnant Ernst

Albert Bessler

P

Peter Esser

Zahlmeister

Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum

Richard Münch

Kriegsgerichtsrat

Joseph Offenbach

Untersuchungsrichter

Werner Peters