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".

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Cast

Wolfgang Preiss

Freiherr von Pirovano

Peter van Eyck

Mönchschreiber

Benno Sterzenbach

Rittmeister Reningen

Fritz Rasp

Großwesir

Eduard Köck

Falkenier

Anita Björk

Gräfin von Zathmar