Punishment Battalion

Drama, War · 1960

The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.

Starring

Ilse Dubois, Sonja Ziemann, Georg Thomas, Heinz Hölscher, Otto Erdmann, Otto Erdmann, Otto Erdmann, Werner Peters, Ernst Schröder, Elisabeth Kleinert-Neumann, Willy Mattes, Heinz Weiss

Director

Harald Philipp