After serving their sentence, three prisoners, a doctor, a civil servant and a thief, leave jail. During the train trip they do together to return home, they analyze their respective lives. The doctor has been required to perform an operation on a child abandoned by his father, a millionaire.

1941 film by Karl Ritter

On 20th July 1944, Colonel Baron Schenk von Stauffenberg made an attempt to kill Hitler using a bomb at his "Fuehrer headquarters" in eastern Prussia.
This is definitely not shot in Tom Cruise-style... G.W. Pabst has reconstructed events up to the colonel's court martial and execution chronologically and in a meticulous way, demonstrating an honest effort to be precise regarding historical facts. With considerable detail, and employing an excellent cast, he relates what really happened on 20th July ...