CAST:
Erwin Geschonneck (Walter Kraemer),
Armin Mueller-Stahl (André Höfel),
Krystyn Wójcik (Marian Kropinski),
Fred Delmare (Rudi Pippig),
Viktor Avdyushko (Leonid Bogorski)

SCRIPT:
Bruno Apitz (prema vlastitom romanu),
Frank Beyer,
Alfred Hirschmeier

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Günter Marczinkowsky

Synopsis:
Several men are moved from the concentration camp in Auschwitz to Buchenwald. With them arrives a suitcase in which a four-year-old boy hides. Knowing that the allied forces are nearing the camp and will free them soon, the captives decide to hide the boy who will be murdered if he is found. While the Nazis search the camp, the hidden boy becomes their symbol of hope. The film is based on Bruno Apitz’s autobiographical novel.

16 mm, b/w, 124 min