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.
Simon Ward
Siegfried Rauch
Gerd Böckmann
Robert Hoffmann
Jon Finch
Peter Cushing
Lil Dagover
Wolfgang Preiss
Maria Perschy
Rudolf Prack
Friedrich von Ledebur
Viktor Staal
Verónica Forqué
Erik Frey
Hans Thimig
Kurt Sowinetz
Albert Rueprecht