Four directors - four styles - four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin, and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night...
| Directing | Ulrich Thein | Director |
| Directing | Karl-Heinz Carpentier | Director |
| Directing | Frank Vogel | Director |
| Directing | Gerhard Klein | Director |
| Writing | Werner Bräunig | Writer |
| Editing | Evelyn Carow | Editor |
| Sound | Wilhelm Neef | Music |
| Writing | Ulrich Thein | Writer |
| Writing | Erik Neutsch | Writer |
| Writing | Hartwig Strobel | Writer |
| Editing | Susanne Carpentier | Editor |
| Crew | Peter Krause | Cinematography |
| Sound | Wolfgang Pietsch | Music |
| Editing | Lotti Mehnert | Editor |
| Writing | Helmut Baierl | Writer |
| Sound | Georg Katzer | Music |
| Writing | Frank Vogel | Writer |
| Editing | Brigitte Krex | Editor |
| Crew | Claus Neumann | Cinematography |
| Crew | Hans-Jürgen Sasse | Cinematography |
| Crew | Hartwig Strobel | Cinematography |
| Sound | Günter Hauk | Music |
| Writing | Gerhard Klein | Writer |
| Writing | Karl-Heinz Carpentier | Writer |
