After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to Prague, where he joins forces with another expatriate and a sympathetic Czech relief worker. Together with other Jewish refugees, the three make their way to Paris, and, after spending time in a French prison camp, eventually escape to Marseille, from where they hope to sail to a safe port
| Directing | Axel Corti | Director |
| Production | Matija Barl | Producer |
| Production | Werner Reitmeier | Production Manager |
| Writing | Georg Stefan Troller | Novel |
| Production | Kurt Kodat | Producer |
| Camera | Peter Arnold | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Wolfgang Treu | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Axel Corti | Screenplay |
| Production | Wulf Fleming | Production Manager |
| Sound | Hans Georg Koch | Music |
| Editing | Ulrike Pahl | Editor |
| Art | Ernst Braunias | Art Direction |
| Sound | Herbert Koller | Sound |
