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.

• DEFA
• Rüdiger Joswig
• Katja Paryla
• Brigitte Krause
• Jürgen Hentsch
• Ute Christensen
• Günter Schubert
• Joachim Trotz
• Horst Hiemer