Overview
The romantic love and heroic death of a young cornet who rode into battle against the Turks in the mid-17th century. Based on Rainer Maria Rilke’s "The Ballad of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke".
Cast
- Wolfgang Preiss as Freiherr von Pirovano
- Peter van Eyck as Mönchschreiber
- Benno Sterzenbach as Rittmeister Reningen
- Fritz Rasp as Großwesir
- Eduard Köck as Falkenier
- Anita Björk as Gräfin von Zathmar