Public Enemies

Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and journalist Rudolf Augstein.

• Roland Suso RichterDirector
• Johannes W. BetzWriter

• Sebastian RudolphRudolf Augstein
• Francis Fulton-SmithFranz Josef Strauß
• David RottConrad Ahlers
• Johann von BülowHans Detlef Becker
• Franz DindaClaus Jacobi
• Max HoppLeo Brawand
• Alexander HeldSiegfried Buback
• Nora WaldstättenElke Maria Carlsson
• Franziska SchlattnerMarianne Strauß
• Otto MelliesKonrad Adenauer
• Michael SchönbornVolkmar Hopf
• Gesine CukrowskiKatharina Augstein