The focus of this wartime propaganda film from 1940 is the foreman Keith, who works at a Polish sawmill, not far from the German border. It is 1939 and the War is fast approaching. The Polish workers at the sawmill revolt and kill the mill's German owner, as well as threaten their German colleagues. Keith flees with the children of his dead boss and joins other German refugees on their way to safety across the borders of the Reich.
Cast
Brigitte Horney
Anna
Willy Birgel
Keith
Iván Petrovich
Jan
Carl Wery
Martin
Reinhold Lütjohann
Wegner
Gerd Høst
Marianne Wegner
Arthur Fritz Eugens
Paul Wegner
Nicolas Koline
Andreas
Hedwig Wangel
Liska
Hannes Keppler
Hans Martin
Karl-Heinz Peters
Antek
Beppo Brem
Wegereit
José Held
Stach
Friedrich Ettel
Keller
Ludwig Schmid-Wildy
Lessing
Walter Holten
Böhme
Katharina Berger
Unknown
Crew
Viktor Tourjansky
Director, Screenplay
Emil Burri
Screenplay
Arthur Luethy
Screenplay
Walter Fredersdorf
Editor
Fritz Arno Wagner
Director of Photography
Auguste Barth
Assistant Director
Ruth Wagner
Costume Assistant
Ludwig Heiss
Sound Director
Lothar Brühne
Music
Rudolf Reißner
Still Photographer
Carl W. Tetting
Production Manager
August Lautenbacher
Unit Manager
Rudolf Kley
Unit Manager
Julius von Borsody
Art Direction
Gerbert Hochreiter
Art Direction
Alfred Metscher
Art Direction
