
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.
Gottfried Richter
Viktor Kleist

Mikhail Ulyanov
Lenin

Helga Göring
Mrs. Kleist

Winfried Glatzeder
Rolf Rosenow

Inge Keller
Mrs. von Roettger

Dieter Mann
Erich

Carmen-Maja Antoni

Kurt Müller-Reitzner
Major
Wolfgang Pampel
Rolf Ripperger

Lev Kruglyy
George

Zhanna Bolotova
Lena

Lev Durov
Kuzma Sukharin

Lyusyena Ovchinnikova
Rimma

Gleb Strizhenov
The Commissioner