14 Sep 2007
True North
The crew of a bankrupt Scottish trawler turn to smuggling illegal immigrants over the stormy waters of the North Sea.
Top Billed Cast
Ulrich Thein Kurt, Lehrling im Fischkombinat
Erich Brauer Decksmann von Laue
Erwin Geschonneck Laue, Kapitän eines Fischkutters
Gustav Püttjer 
Otmar Richter Rita Gödikmeier Friedrich Wilhelm Junge 
Wilhelm Koch-Hooge Hans-Joachim Glaeser Hans Finohr 
Fritz Diez 
Harry Hindemith 
Erik S. Klein Adolf Peter Hoffmann 
Ernst-Georg Schwill 
Rudolf Ulrich
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