

Director / Creator: Wolfgang Petersen
Karl Maiwald, a Dortmund auto mechanic, struggles amid neighbor disputes and family tension. Discovering his company’s clandestine bugging, he exposes management, expecting union backing. Yet the union’s hidden ownership of the firm stuns him, as he realizes the very workers leading protests are its members.

Günter Lamprecht

Karl-Heinz von Hassel

Claus Theo Gärtner

Ortrud Beginnen

Siegfried W. Kernen

Günther Neutze

Peter Schiff

Klaus Schwarzkopf

Josef Quadflieg

Dieter Schaad

Wolfgang Grönebaum

Dorothea Moritz

Léonie Thelen

Heinz Schimmelpfennig

Günther Heising

Wolfgang Grönebaum

Hermann Günther

Hans Schulze

Giuseppe Coniglio

Claus Fuchs