Klaus-Peter Thiele, Arno Wyzniewski, Günter Junghans, Peter Reusse, Monika Woytowicz, Dietlinde Greiff, Angelica Domröse, Manfred Karge, Maria Alexander, Wolfgang Langhoff, Wolf Kaiser, Erika Pelikowsky, Martin Flörchinger, Helga Göring, Ingeborg Ottmann
Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler's army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier; but at the front, Werner begins to understand the senselessness of war.