After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port.

Johannes Silberschneider
as Ferry

Barbara Petritsch
as Alena

Armin Mueller-Stahl
as Gandhi

Georg Corten
as Kron

Georg Marischka
as Gross

Fritz Muliar
as Mehlig

Eric Schildkraut
as Fein

Dietrich Siegl
as Grün

Buddy Elias
as

Bernd Jeschek
as Dolba