A young soldier enters Germany with Soviet troops at the end of WWII, feeling like a stranger in his homeland. As he meets Germans, he grapples with his ambivalence, realizing he is both a victor and one of the vanquished. His inquisitive nature leads him to confront the atrocities and lies he encounters along the way.

• DEFA
• Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe ''Babelsberg''
• Jaecki Schwarz
• Vasiliy Livanov
• Rolf Hoppe
• Galina Polskikh
• Jürgen Hentsch
• Kurt Böwe
• Hermann Beyer
• Mikhail Gluzskiy