A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them. During the journey, the stations on his way to Lenin wake up again.
Director: Günter Reisch
Screenplay: Helmut Baierl, Yevgeni Gabrilovich
Writer: Alfred Kurella
Director of Photography: Jürgen Brauer, Valeriy Vladimirov
Viktor Kleist
Lenin
Mrs. Kleist
Rolf Rosenow
Mrs. von Roettger
Erich
Major