This color documentary tells the story of the "Mamais." In 1960, a group of workers at the Bitterfeld chemical plant set themselves the task of becoming the first "socialist brigade" in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) to act in accordance with the slogan "Work, learn, and live socialist."

• DEFA-Studio für Kurzfilme
• Martin Nager
• Martin Hagen
• Alfons Tilde
• Horst Zischer
• Robert Linke
• Nikolai Marmai
• Jürgen Böttcher