A group of people find themselves stuck in remote train station in German-occupied Poland. A drunk German station guard there gets paranoid and sees partisans all around him, phones headquarters, and when the German soldiers arrive and search the station they find a gun. They then threaten to execute every fifth person unless someone claims it.
Kazimierz Kutz
Marian Brandys
Ludwika Woźnicka
Kurt Weber
Tadeusz Baird
Janina Traczykówna
Anna
Andrzej May
Piotr
Małgorzata Dziedzic
Marylka
Danuta Szaflarska
Marylka's "Aunt"
Maciej Damięcki
Boy
Gustaw Lutkiewicz
Wacuś Kwaśniewski
Jerzy Block
Station Master Kaliński
Zdzisław Tobiasz
Bahnschützer
Jan Zdrojewski
Gestapo Member
Bogdan Baer
Trader's Brother-in-law
Aleksander Fogiel
Trader
Józef Pieracki
Disabled Man
... and 15 more
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