In 1929 Berlin, the progressive editor-in-chief Bornstein is on trial for libel. An article in his magazine attempted to uncover the role that Reichsanwalt Jörns had played ten years earlier in the "clarification" of the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. The article explained that the then court martial judge knowingly covered up for the murderers and delayed the trial. At the trial, the testimony of witnesses succeeded in proving the truth of the publication and exposing those behind the murders as those who were preparing fascism.

Walter Jupé
Jörns

Horst Drinda
Pabst

Jochen Thomas
Runge

Rolf Römer
Liepmann

Gerhard Rachold
Vogel

Hannjo Hasse
Kapitänleutnant Pflugk-Harttung

Helmut Schreiber
Hauptmann Pflugk-Harttung
Adolf Peter Hoffmann
Hofmann

Klaus-Peter Thiele
Lautenberg

Herbert Köfer
Oberst von Winsen
Kurt Steingraf
Deepenthal

Norbert Christian
Gerichtsvorsitzender

Horst Schulze
Verteidiger
Siegfried Weiß
Generalstaatsanwalt

Helga Labudda
Anna Bälger