A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them. During the journey, the stations on his way to Lenin wake up again.
as Viktor Kleist
as Lenin
as Mrs. Kleist
as Rolf Rosenow
as Mrs. von Roettger
as Erich
as Major
as George
as Lena
as Kuzma Sukharin
as Rimma
as The Commissioner
as Pilot
as Hotel duty
as Schwarkin
as Secretary of the District Committee
as Lore
as George's mother
as Coroner
as Harry Motsch
as Operator
as Lieutenant Vogel
as Comrade Wolf
as Old man on the stairs
as Little Soldier