Jochen Nickel

Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by partisans. Together with a scattered bunch of German soldiers, cut off from the front, he awaits certain death while the commands of his superior Willi Stehauf are becoming more and more senseless and inhuman.

Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) directs this near-future disaster flick following prisoners forced to protect a valuable mining station.