In Annemarie Brinkmann's small German village all the young men are recruited to the front in WWI. When her boyfriend Klaus Renken gets the call they spend their last romantic night together. Time goes by but one day when the pastor announces the names of the fallen villagers: Klaus is among them. Annemarie collapses while the congregation sings a funeral song.

Cast

Gisela Uhlen

Annemarie Brinkmann

Paul Bildt

Pfarrer Schröder

Ernst Behmer

Briefträger

Lotte Spira

Leiterin des Wohltätigkeitskomitees

Margarete Schön

Mutter Renken

Victor von Zitzewitz

Klaus Renken

Ilse Rose-Vollborn

Magda