During the Second World War, an old fortress is transformed into a detention camp for arrested allied generals who the Germans provide with every possible comfort. In the nearby garrison camp, however, hundreds of captured private soldiers try to survive hunger and cold.

Zdzisław Mrożewski
as General Arthur Gordon

Karel Höger
as

Bohumil Šmída
as General Tim Attwood

Norbert Christian
as General Jean-Paul Grémillom

Wilhelm Koch-Hooge
as General von Hoppe

Wanda Spinka
as Dutch Barmaid

Józef Kostecki
as Dr. Lorenz

Radovan Lukavský
as

Fred Düren
as Sergeant Vannier

Egidio Bonanno
as Italian Partisan