When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe...
The crew of a small Saßnitz fisherman has problems with the "making a cultural socialist life". In order not to lose the competition prize again in the future, they want to show the organizer a collective weekend with all the trimmings. And they really do not mind ...
Ноябрьская революция 1918 года в Германии, голод и социальные потрясения вызывают отклик у молодой Советской власти в России. Для оказания продовольственной помощи формируются железнодорожные составы с хлебом. Один из них по личному поручению В.И. Ленина сопровождает молодая революционерка Татьяна. В пути она встречает бывшего немецкого военнопленного Курта. Между ними возникают романтические отношения. Эшелон с хлебом, несмотря на все трудности, доставлен. В столкновении с отрядом контрреволюционных германских войск Татьяна ранена. Она возвращается в Москву, а Курт едет в Берлин для продолжения революционной борьбы.
October 1918: Karl Liebknecht is released from prison and Berlin workers celebrate his release. Although WWI is almost over, the German Kaiserreich in vain sends its last reserves to the slaughter. The working class is in a rebellious mood; the uprising of Kiel’s sailors against war and militarism sets off a call for revolution led by Liebknecht. On November 9, Liebknecht declares the Free Socialist Republic of Germany. But pro-Kaiser military and right wing Social Democrats oppose him.
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.
