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
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
Friedrich von Ledebur
as General
Viktor Staal
as Anton
