Overview
During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, simply try to survive by any means possible.
Cast
- Simon Ward as Fähnrich Herbert Menis
- Siegfried Rauch as Botenlauben
- Gerd Böckmann as Anschütz
- Robert Hoffmann as Koch Klein
- Jon Finch as Charbinsky
- Peter Cushing as Baron Hackenberg
- Lil Dagover as Erzherzogin
- Wolfgang Preiss as Oberst
- Maria Perschy as Mordax
- Rudolf Prack as kaiserlicher Hofdiener