Sterne eine Gemeinschaftsproduktion des DEFA-Studios für Spielfilme und des Studios für Spielfilme Sofia ; Buch, Angel Wagenstein ; Kamera, Werner Bergmann ; produktionsleitung, Vyltscho Draganov, Siegfried Nürnberger ; Regie, Konrad Wolf.

A detachment of Nazi soldiers escorting Greek Jews to the Auschwitz death camp stops at a small Bulgarian town in 1943. Walter, the non-commissioned officer from the Nazi army, a skeptical and disillusioned intellectual, falls most unexpectedly in love with the Jewish girl Rutt. This new feeling gradually makes him stop and reflect on the events taking place around him and comes face to face with the inhuman nature of fascism. He is tortured by anxious thought about the part he is called to play in the eternal struggle between evil and good.