The read
It runs a compact 1h 30m.
Synopsis
The year is 1760: it is the time of the Seven Years' War and the advancing Russian army has taken captive 100 underage Prussian cadets. The kids are mishandled by the raping and pillaging Russians, but with the help of a Rittmeister now in the service of the Tsar, they succeed in getting away. They hole up in a deserted fort and eventually sally forward to take back their military academy from the bloodthirsty, pillaging Cossacks.
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
5 audience votes
Key crew
- Karl RitterDirector
Cast
- Mathias WiemanRittmeister von Tzülow
- Carsta LöckSophie
- Andrews EngelmannOberst Goroschew
- Theo ShallHauptmann Jupow
- Erich WaltherGeneral Graf Tschernitschew
- Josef KeimFeldwebel Schönbrunn
- Willy Kaiser-HeylGeneral von Buddenbrock
- Wilhelm P. KrügerIngenieur Major
- Lydia LiRussische Sängerin
- Bernd RussbültKadett Bork
- Klaus Detlef SierckKadett Hohenhausen
- Martin BrendelKadett Schack