People with Wings

People with Wings — Plot

This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic, Bartuschek (Erwin Geschonneck) is working as a mechanic in the Sperber airplane plant. Director Dehringer offers him the opportunity to train as an airplane constructor if he is willing to give up his communist beliefs under oath. Bartuschek will not allow himself to be bought and instead joins the underground resistance movement.

• Release date
• August 24, 1960
• Runtime
• 121 min
• Genres
• Drama, War
• Director
• Konrad Wolf

People with Wings — Cast

Erwin Geschonneck Bartuscheck Wilhelm Koch-Hooge Dr. Lampert Hilmar Thate Henne Franz Kutschera Dr. Dehringer

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Rosita Fernandez Ines

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Otto Dierichs Dr. Klinger Fred Mahr Friedrich Mathilde Danegger Mutter Friedrich