Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to become the head of a division—on the condition that he find a reason to fire Zacharias, a communist and the work council chairman.

Rüdiger Joswig
as Harald Walcher

Katja Paryla
as Frau Walcher

Brigitte Krause
as Mutter Walcher

Jürgen Hentsch
as Direktor Stahlberg

Ute Christensen
as Junges Mädchen

Günter Schubert
as 1. Gast

Joachim Trotz
as Narrator

Horst Hiemer
as

Gert Krause-Melzer
as Günter Walcher (archive footage)

Rolf Ludwig
as