Career

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.

• Heiner CarowDirector
• Hermann HerlinghausWriter
• Heiner CarowWriter
• Claus KüchenmeisterWriter

• Rüdiger JoswigHarald Walcher
• Katja ParylaFrau Walcher
• Brigitte KrauseMutter Walcher
• Jürgen HentschDirektor Stahlberg
• Ute ChristensenJunges Mädchen
• Günter Schubert1. Gast
• Joachim TrotzNarrator
• Horst HiemerCast
• Gert Krause-MelzerGünter Walcher (archive footage)
• Rolf LudwigCast
• Dorothea MeissnerChristine (archive footage)
• Gerd MicheelCast