Jannis Niewöhner

Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.

George MacKay (1917) and Jannis Niewöhner (Mute) play two old friends caught in the middle of a political boiling pot in this espionage thriller set right before World War II.