"East German TV miniseries about the young maid Gertrud Habersaat, who marries, moves from Mecklenburg to Poland in the early 1940s, has to come back to Mecklenburg as a refugee during World War II and finally finds her place during the 1950s."
Ursula Karusseit
as Gertrud Habersaat
Christa Lehmann
as die alte Habersaat
Erika Pelikowsky
as die alte Leßtorff
Armin Mueller-Stahl
as Jürgen Leßtorff
Erik S. Klein
as Emil Kalluweit
Manfred Krug
as Willi Heyer
Renate Rennhack
as Martha Heyer
Angelica Domröse
as Gräfin Palvner
Carmen-Maja Antoni
as Irma
Hans Klering
as Leitkow
Lothar Bellag
as Hans Frank
Trude Bechmann
as die alte Simmoneit
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
as Siebold
Anna Prucnal
as Steffa
Ireneusz Kanicki
as Jan
Włodzimierz T. Kowalski
as Edek
Marian Melman
as Prof. Pinarski
Volkmar Kleinert
as SS-Obersturmführer Schneider
Kathrin Hercher
as Mala
Ingolf Gorges
as Fredi Neuschulz
Elsa Grube-Deister
as Fräulein Wirsing
Elfriede Florin
as Frau Meisendorf
Otto Dierichs
as Bauer Heinemann
Erich Brauer
as Bauer Hänsel
Alwin Brosch
as Bauer Frenzel
Harry Merkel
as Müller
Margit Bendokat
as Müllerin
Tscheslaw Moissejew
as sowjetischer Offizier
Walentin Kisseljow
Anne-Kathrein Kretzschmar
as große Mala
Berko Acker
as Stefan
Berndt Renné
as Jochen
Ernst Kahler
as Krause
Helga Raumer
as Frau Heinemann
Gerd Ehlers
as Jankow
Horst Kube
as Brachmann
Peter Marx
as Kaderleiter
Aleksandra Karzyńska
as Bronka, Stefans Mutter
Guido Matschek
as Lehrer
Fritz Links
as Totengräber
Wolfgang Arnst
Friedrich Teitge
as Gärtner
Ernst-Georg Schwill
as SS-Mann
Zygmunt Mierzwiak
as Volksdeutscher
Iwa Młodnicka
as polnische Frau
Uwe Detlef Jessen
as älterer SS-Mann
Lothar Dimke
as Posten
Gerd Michael Henneberg
as Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger
Hans Knötzsch
as Offizier in Krakau
Wiebke Fuhrken
as Bäuerin
Günther Polensen
as Amtswalter
Eugen Eschner
as junger SS-Mann
Willi Schrade
as Postenführer
Jürgen Marten
as Untersturmführer
Martin Eckermann
Screenplay
Helmut Sakowski
Director
Siegfried Matthus
Music
Hans-Jürgen Heimlich
Camera Department Manager