Roses for the Prosecutor

Overview

April 1945. Because he stole two bars of chocolate, the soldier Rudi is sentenced to death by the court-martial judge Dr. Schramm. Rudi manages to escape from the firing squad at the last minute, and since the end of the war has been making a meager living as a street peddler. Years later, Dr. Schramm is now a respected public prosecutor. By chance, he runs into Rudi one day on the street. Afraid that Rudi will blow the whistle on him, Dr. Schramm wants to scare him out of town. He has Rudi arrested and bullied by the police.

Directed by Wolfgang Staudte

Top cast

Martin Held

Oberstaatsanwalt Dr. Wilhelm Schramm

Walter Giller

Rudi Kleinschmidt

Ingrid van Bergen

Lissy Flemming

Camilla Spira

Hildegard Schramm

Werner Peters

Otto Kugler

Ralf Wolter

Hessel

Wolfgang Preiss

Generalstaatsanwalt

Paul Hartmann

Landgerichtspräsident Diefenbach

Wolfgang Wahl

Defense Counsel

R

Roland Kaiser

Schramms Stiefsohn Werner

Werner Finck

Haase

B

Burghard Ortgies

Manfred Schramm

Inge Meysel

Erna

Wolfgang Neuss

Paul

Wolfgang Müller

Karl

H

Henry Lorenzen

Graumann

D

Dieter Neckritz

Reporter

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