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Summary1920: Trains loaded with weapons roll east over the Erfurt railway junction. Weapons intended for the fight against the young Soviet state. The railwayman Fritz Marr knows about the illegal transports and tries to mobilize the workers for countermeasures. He's being transferred to a remote construction site. When a wagon flies into the air not far from Erfurt, a chemical explosion is reported. But Marr knows it was ammunition. The Special Representative for Transport and the Reichsbahn Directorate do everything they can to make Marr look like a liar. His girlfriend Hella also doubts his words. Only when an assassination attempt is planned against him and Hella sees his house surrounded, does she get other workers to help her. The murder is prevented, and together the workers go to the station to stop the Polonia express loaded with weapons. The French soldiers guarding the train show solidarity with the Erfurt labourers.
(Source: The Second Life of the Film City Babelsberg. DEFA feature films 1946-1992)
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Decade1950
Production Year1957
Release date7 Nov 1957
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ActorsHans Wehrl, Horst Kube, Alice Graf, Wilhelm Gröhl, Horst Schön, Gerd Biewer, Hans W. Hamacher, Horst Lommatzsch, Harry Gillmann, Jochen Thomas, Gerhard Bienert, Hans-Peter Minetti, Hans Klering, Rudolf Ulrich, Martin Flörchinger
