Career
1971•1h 22m•Released
DramaCrimeWarHistory
Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to become the head of a division—on the condition that he find a reason to fire Zacharias, a communist and the work council chairman.
Director
Heiner Carow
Writer
Claus Küchenmeister, Hermann Herlinghaus, Heiner Carow
Languages
German
Studio
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Cast
Rüdiger Joswig
Harald Walcher
Katja Paryla
Frau Walcher
Brigitte Krause
Mutter Walcher
Jürgen Hentsch
Direktor Stahlberg
Ute Christensen
Junges Mädchen
Günter Schubert
1. Gast
Joachim Trotz
Narrator
Horst Hiemer
Gert Krause-Melzer
Günter Walcher (archive footage)
Rolf Ludwig
Dorothea Meissner
Christine (archive footage)
Gerd Micheel
Viktor Perevalov
Igor (archive footage)
Vsevolod Safonov
Golubkow (archive footage)
Hermann Stövesand
Production
Company
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
Producer
Siegfried Kabitzke
Producer
Dieter Dormeier
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