Career

Overview

Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to become the head of a division—on the condition that he find a reason to fire Zacharias, a communist and the work council chairman.

Directed by Heiner Carow

Top cast

Rüdiger Joswig

Harald Walcher

Katja Paryla

Frau Walcher

Brigitte Krause

Mutter Walcher

Jürgen Hentsch

Direktor Stahlberg

Ute Christensen

Junges Mädchen

Günter Schubert

1. Gast

J

Joachim Trotz

Narrator

H

Horst Hiemer

G

Gert Krause-Melzer

Günter Walcher (archive footage)

Rolf Ludwig

D

Dorothea Meissner

Christine (archive footage)

G

Gerd Micheel

Viktor Perevalov

Igor (archive footage)

Vsevolod Safonov

Golubkow (archive footage)

Hermann Stövesand

Richard Nixon

Self (archive footage)

Kurt-Georg Kiesinger

Self (archive footage)

Details