"Prussia is on the brink of national bankruptcy. King Frederick William III unexpectedly appoints the tax official Christian Rother as President of the Royal Prussian Maritime Trade."
Günter Lamprecht
as Christian Rother
Friedhelm Ptok
as August Friedrich Kayser
Willi Kowalj
as August Friedrich Bloch
Jürgen Thormann
as Narrator
Albert Heins
as Hinz
Gerd Wameling
as Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
Henning Gissel
as Ernst-Ludwig von Gerlach
Erich Schwarz
as Leopold von Gerlach
Hans Korte
as Graf von Wittgenstein
Arthur Brauss
as Baron von Globsoe
Gerd Baltus
as Friedrich Wilhelm III.
Ilse Pagé
as Elise
Peter Deutsch
Director
Wolfgang Kirchner
Writer
Dietger Bansberg
Producer
Peter Thomas
Original Music Composer
Klaus König
Director of Photography
Micaela Porcelli
Editor
Dietmar H. Suhr
Production Design
Ingrid Zoré
Costume Design