Polonia-Express

Polonia-Express

75 mins | Drama | Nov. 7, 1957

Railway employee Fritz Marr is not regarded well by his superiors. It is the year 1920, and trains regularly pass the railway hub of Erfurt to the East to secretly transport weapons for the fight against the young Soviet Union. Marr knows about this and wants to mobilise other workers to stop these illegal deliveries. To muzzle him, Marr is relocated to a remote rail work construction site.

Polonia-Express

75 mins | Drama | Nov. 7, 1957

Polonia-Express
Railway employee Fritz Marr is not regarded well by his superiors. It is the year 1920, and trains regularly pass the railway hub of Erfurt to the East to secretly transport weapons for the fight against the young Soviet Union. Marr knows about this and wants to mobilise other workers to stop these illegal deliveries. To muzzle him, Marr is relocated to a remote rail work construction site.
Producers DEFA
Original title Polonia-Express
Directors Kurt Jung-Alsen
Writers Otto Kühne, Kurt Jung-Alsen, Frank Beyer

Cast

Alice Graf

as Hella Merkel

Horst Schön

as Fritz Marr

Gerhard Bienert

as Wilhelm Merkel

Hans-Peter Minetti

as Lehnert

Rudolf Ulrich

as Althoff

Hans Klering

as Schwerte

Hans Wehrl

as older worker

Waldemar Pottier

as observer

Harry Gillmann

as Riemer

Hans W. Hamacher

as von Ulmer

Jochen Thomas

as Basstreter

Gerd Biewer

as french officer

Horst Lommatzsch

as estate inspector

Wilhelm Gröhl

as bourgeois

Horst Kube

as Ernst Kölling

Erik S. Klein

as lieutenant

Fritz Ernst Fechner

as 1. Worker

Erich Mirek

as 2. Worker

Paul Pfingst

as 3. Worker

Gerry Wolff

as french soldier

Charlotte Küter

as frau Riemer

Hans Flössel

as doctor

Editha Horn

as Ralow's secretary

Willi Endresser

as railwayman

Waldemar Potier

as observer

Herbert Rüdiger

as worker from RAW

Siegfried Fomm

as Police captain

Günther Ballier

as Riemer's doctor

Hans-Joachim Hegewald

as Truck driver

Dieter Perlwitz

as young blond worker

Egon Vogel

as dispatcher

Oswald Foerderer

as Constable

Hans-Jürgen Degenhardt

as railway worker in the signal box

Gertrud-Elisabeth Zillmer

as Lehnert's secretary

Erich Braun

as railwayman

Ilse Bastubbe

as dancer

Hartmut Reck

as Worker

Karl-Heinz Weiss

as worker

Ralf Bregazzi

as french soldier

Gerhard Einert

as french soldier

Hans Ulrich Laufer

as french soldier