Fabrik der Offiziere (1960)

Plot Summary

An army war school during the WWII: first Lieutenant Krafft has a strong sense of justice. This has often brought him into disrepute with his previous superiors and he has been transferred several times as a result. With his new position in an officer's school, he hopes to survive the war and tries to avoid further conflicts. However, Krafft is entrusted with an investigation by his general - a supervising officer has been blown to pieces by an explosive charge during an engineer exercise. Although the chief field judge rules the man's death an accident, Krafft reconstructs the events and proves that it was a case of murder. Ensign Hochbauer, who was in the party's favor, is said to have deliberately shortened the fuse during the explosive exercise, as a result of which the supervising officer was unable to get to safety in time.

Full Cast & Characters

Helmut Griem

Oberleutnant Krafft

Horst Frank

Hauptmann Feder

Carl Lange

Generalmajor Modersohn

Peter Carsten

Hauptmann Katers

Erik Schumann

Hauptmann Rathshelm

Karl John

Major Frey

Paul Edwin Roth

Oberfeldrichter Wirrmann

Folker Bohnet

Fähnrich Böhmke

Margitta Scherr

Irene Jablonski

Roger Fritz

Fähnrich Andreas

Hans Paetsch

Xenia Pörtner

Marion Feder

Director & Crew

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