Overview
Under the slogan of the arms race of the superpowers, which escalates in the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and brings the world to the brink of nuclear war, two exemplary post-war male figures challenge an almost archaic feud: Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss and journalist Rudolf Augstein.
Cast
Rudolf Augstein
Franz Josef Strauß
Conrad Ahlers
Hans Detlef Becker
Claus Jacobi
Leo Brawand
Siegfried Buback
Elke Maria Carlsson
Marianne Strauß
Konrad Adenauer
Volkmar Hopf
Katharina Augstein