A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try to take advantage of him, he soon finds his position politically sensitive, and gets caught up in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers.

• Gérard Mital Productions
• Nordisk Film Denmark
• Jean-Marc Barr
• Barbara Sukowa
• Udo Kier
• Ernst-Hugo Järegård
• Erik Mørk
• Jørgen Reenberg
• Henning Jensen
• Eddie Constantine