Jürgen Fohrmann works as a hauer underground. In the course of the coal crisis, his mine closes - he loses the work. In this mood, his wife's prosperity thinking gets on his nerves - his marriage threatens to break. The dismissed coal buddy applys, first becomes an auxiliary worker, but then receives a job in an automated operation of the electrical industry and believes to have socially risen through this "clean work". Fohrmann quickly realizes that wearing a "white coat" is only seemingly better than the arduous work in the pit and understands that he can no longer stay out of the work struggles of the buddies.
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Günther Simon
Jürgen Fohrmann
Known for
The Silent Star
Irma Münch
Inge Fohrmann
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Daniel Druskat
Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria
Gerhard Bengsch
Horst E Brandt
Lissy Tempelhof
Irene
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Your Presence Is Imperative
Take Care of Susi!
Heinz Thiel
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Five Days, Five Nights
Helga Göring
Veronika Borowski
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Spreewaldfamilie
Drei reizende Schwestern
Sabine Thalbach
Erika
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The Kaiser's Lackey
Kleiner Mann – was nun?
Kurt Müller-Reitzner
Baumann
Also in
Krupp und Krause
Geheimkommando Bumerang
Fred Delmare
Jupp
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In All Friendship
Zur See
Fritz Schlegel
Willi
Also in
The Tinder Box
The Golden Goose
Gerd Ehlers
Polenz
Also in
Ways across the Country
The Green Monster
Horst E. Brandt Director · Heinz Thiel Director Gerhard Bengsch Writer
First release August 21, 1966 · Produced in XG, Germany · Production Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF)
Production
Fernsehen der DDR
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Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF)
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XG · Germany
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German
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German
Release dates
Germany · August 21, 1966
TV · East Germany
No release date listed for United States.
Germany
June 17, 1968 · TV · West Germany (Part 1)
June 18, 1968 · TV · West Germany (Part 2)
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