February 12, 1966
1h 23m
DE
Egon Monk
24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police officers chat about their personal lives, take care of petty offence and at most, warn the odd rubbernecker away from the border to the “Soviet zone”. Meanwhile their East German counterparts are under enormous pressure. The day begins with disciplinary action after one of the border guards was found sleeping on duty. The supervisors demand utmost vigilance and a solid ideological bent, and suspicion and mistrust are the rule within the ranks of these soldiers of the National People’s Army (NVA). Unnoticed by the soldiers, four East Berlin students are preparing to flee to the west. But in the morning mists, only their accomplice, an NVA private, succeeds …
Lutz Mackensy
Grüttner
Fritz Hollenbeck
Firzlaff
Franz Rudnick
Politstellvertreter
Dieter Meichsner
3
Edgar Bessen
Postenführer
Eberhard Fechner
Pierott
Henning Venske
Student
Rolf Schimpf
Berliner Schutzpolizeibeamter
Georg Eilert
Cast
Ortwin Speer
Cast
Jochen Genscher
Cast
NDR
DE
