Punishment Battalion

Directed by Harald Philipp

With Sonja Ziemann, Georg Thomas, Werner Peters, Ernst Schröder and Heinz Weiss

The film focuses on life in a World War II German penal battalion camp somewhere in Russia. The convicts include a heroic doctor unjustly convicted of avoiding military service, an officer who retreated against orders, and common criminals. It shows their life in the camp, clearing mines, living in trenches on the front line.