After years of drifting around, Willi Palko arrives in the lignite mining area. He was not only looking for a new job, but also wanted to finally settle down here. The party leadership sends him to the Schepp brigade, which has made itself "suspicious" (on paper) due to its extremely high production figures. The stranger is accused of being a spy for the factory management. Willi finds it difficult to assert himself, but he is taken with the big excavator, the prospect of one day being allowed to drive it, and the brash flapper Hanna. He stays, and with his help a mine foreman is exposed as a Western agent and coal production is brought up to a really high level.
Walter Fehdmer
Director of Photography
Johannes Arpe
Director
Egon Günther
Writer
Herbert Jobst
Writer
Günter Grabbert
Willi Palko
Harry Hindemith
Wilhelm Schepp
Günther Simon
Parteisekretär Reichert
Helga Göring
Hanna
Johannes Arpe
Betriebsleiter Pfefferkorn
Fred Delmare
Zugfahrer
Christoph Beyertt
LKW-Fahrer
Frithjof Rüde
Rudolf Ulrich
Fritz Schlegel
Erich Brauer
Rudolf Donath
