In an attempt to escape 19th-century poverty, eight farmers and day laborers attack a prince's money transport in the Hessian Hinterland.
Georg Lehn
Hans Jacob Geiz
Karl-Josef Cramer
Jacob Geiz
Margarethe von Trotta
Sophie
Walter Buschhoff
Pfarrer
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Bauer
Reinhard Hauff
Heinrich Geiz