Punishment Battalion

The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.

• Wolfgang MengeWriter
• Harald PhilippWriter
• Harald PhilippDirector
• Willy MattesOriginal Music Composer

• Sonja ZiemannJulia Deutschmann
• Georg ThomasErnst Deutschmann
• Werner PetersHauptfeldwebel Krüll
• Ernst SchröderDr. Kukill
• Heinz WeissOberleutnant Barth
• Kurd PieritzHauptmann Barth
• Georg LehnWiedeck
• Gerd FrickhöfferKronberg
• Klaus KindlerOberleutnant Bevern
• Judith DornysTanja
• Hanns Ernst JägerKarl Schwannecke
• Werner HessenlandGottfried von Bartlitz