A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try to take advantage of him, he soon finds his position politically sensitive, and gets caught up in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers.
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Jean-Marc Barr as Leopold Kessler
Barbara Sukowa as Katharina Hartmann
Udo Kier as Lawrence Hartmann
Ernst-Hugo Järegård as Uncle Kessler
Erik Mørk as Pater
Jørgen Reenberg as Max Hartmann
Henning Jensen as Siggy
Eddie Constantine as Colonel Harris
Max von Sydow as Narrator (voice)
Benny Poulsen as Steleman
Erno Müller as Seifert
Dietrich Kuhlbrodt as Inspector
Holger Perfort as Mr. Ravenstein
Anne Werner Thomsen as Mrs. Ravenstein
Hardy Rafn as Man in Housecoat
Cæcilia Holbek Trier as Maid
János Herskó as Jewish Man
Talila as Jewish Wife
Claus Flygare as Father
Jon Ledin as American Soldier
Baard Owe as Man with Papers
Leif Magnusson as Doctor Magnus
Lars von Trier as Jew
Vera Gebuhr as Depot Assistant
Else Petersen as Old Female Assistant
Ben Zimet as Old Man #1
Tadek Lokcinski as Old Man #2
Peter Haugstrup as Piccolo
Michael Simpson as Robins
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