Film
The Second Track
XG · Germany- Director
- Joachim Kunert
- Year
- 1962
In this German drama, Brock, a railroad inspector, witnesses a robbery at a train depot. He recognizes the thief, but turning the man in would mean acknowledging he knows him, thus revealing his own complicity with the Nazi war machine. When Brock’s daughter and her boyfriend begin to question him about the incident, will the secret he’s kept for nearly 20 years finally be exposed?
Top cast
Albert Hetterle
Walter Brock
Annekathrin Bürger
Vera Brock
Horst Jonischkan
Frank
Walter Richter-Reinick
Erwin Runge
Helga Göring
Frau Runge
Trude Bechmann
Ältere Frau
Paul Berndt
Kriminalbeamter
Maria Besendahl
Bäckerin
Johanna Clas
Anneliese Merkel
Erik S. Klein
Brigitte Lindenberg
Walter E. Fuß
Arno Wyzniewski
Joachim Zschocke
Klaus Gendries
Oswald Foerderer
Bremser (uncredited)
Fred Marlitz
Notenwart (uncredited)
Wilhelm Puchert
Fahrdienstleiter (uncredited)
Directed by
Joachim Kunert
Written by
Günter Kunert, Joachim Kunert