Armin Mueller-Stahl
as Wolfgang Pagel
The living conditions during the period of inflation in the early 1920s are depicted in a fascinating way. Behind a shiny façade, ordinary people struggle for bare survival. Opposite them stand landowners and former military personnel with their complacency, ignorance, and emptiness! The title character, Wolfgang Pagel—a cadet officer, unemployed and a gambler out of desperation—loses everything on the night before his wedding and sets out in search of money in the inflation-ridden Berlin of the 1920s.
Armin Mueller-Stahl
as Wolfgang Pagel
Wolfgang Langhoff
as Rittmeister von Prackwitz
Herbert Köfer
as Gutsverwalter von Studmann
Friedel Nowack
as Minna
Annekathrin Bürger
as Petra Ledig
Else Wolz
as Mutter Krupaß
Agnes Kraus
as Frau Thumann
Marga Legal
as Frau Pagel
Ingeborg Naß
as Valuten-Vamp
Erik S. Klein
as von Zecke
Felicitas Ritsch
as Hühnerweihe
Helga Labudda
as Violet von Prackwitz
Jürgen Frohriep
as Leutnant Fritz
Edwin Marian
as Inspektor Meier
Ekkehard Schall
as Diener Räder
Eva-Maria Hagen
as Sophie Kowalewski
Hans Hardt-Hardtloff
as Leutevogt Kowalewski