Dr. Fritz Böhler is a prisoner of war doctor in the Soviet POW camp 5110/47 near Stalingrad. Despite the harshest conditions, he tries to help his fellow prisoners with the simplest means. But when his assistant Dr. Schultheiss falls in love with the Russian doctor Alexandra Kasalinskaja, Schultheiss not only endangers his own life - because Alexandra is the lover of First Lieutenant Markow.

Dr. Fritz Böhler, Stabsarzt

Kapitän Alexandra Kasalinskaja

Oberleutnant Pjotr Markow

Pelz, Sanitäter

Dr. Sellnow

Tamara

Fähnrich Peter Schultheiß

Major Dr. Kresin, Distriktarzt

Acting

Sergej, Worotilows Sohn

Walter Grosse

Sauerbrunn

Oberst Eklund

Lagerinsasse

Acting
February 20, 1958

Dr. Fritz Böhler, Stabsarzt

Kapitän Alexandra Kasalinskaja

Oberleutnant Pjotr Markow

Pelz, Sanitäter

Dr. Sellnow

Tamara

Fähnrich Peter Schultheiß

Major Dr. Kresin, Distriktarzt

Acting

Sergej, Worotilows Sohn

Walter Grosse

Sauerbrunn

Oberst Eklund

Lagerinsasse

Acting

