An aging truck driver finds smuggled money and becomes involved with a hijacking crowd.
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The people behind it
Hans Albers
Fernlastfahrer Heinrich Schlüter
Hildegard Knef
Inge Hoffmann
Marius Goring
Kurt Willbrand
Lucie Mannheim
Anna Schlüter
Heinrich Gretler
Spediteur Carl Falk
Gertrud Wolle
Frau Jaguweit
Hans Reiser
Franz Jaguweit
Wolf Ackva
Klatte, Inhaber der Broadway-Bar
Karin Andersen
Lieschen Brunnhuber
Peter Martin Urtel
Hans Brunnhuber
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