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
Wolfgang Bächler
David Briel
Karl-Heinz Merz
Landschütz Volk
Joe Hembus
Schreiber
Karl Renar
Harald Müller
Johann Soldan
Maria Donnerstag
Frau Geiz
Angelika Hillebrecht
Johanna Soldan
Harry Owen
Ludwig Acker
Wilhelm Grasshoff
Richter Danz