A train travels through the vastness of Russia, a train with German prisoners of war returning home, and Viktor Kleist, a young German communist from an intellectual home in Munich, travels back home with them. During the journey, the stations on his way to Lenin wake up again.
Viktor Kleist
Lenin
Mrs. Kleist
Rolf Rosenow
Mrs. von Roettger
Erich
Major
George
Lena
Kuzma Sukharin
Rimma
The Commissioner
Pilot
Hotel duty
Schwarkin
Secretary of the District Committee
Lore
George's mother
Coroner
Harry Motsch
Operator
Lieutenant Vogel
Comrade Wolf
Old man on the stairs
Little Soldier
