A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.

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Cast

Pola Negri

Rischka

Victor Janson

Kommandant der Festung Tossenstein

Paul Heidemann

Leutnant Alexis

Wilhelm Diegelmann

Räuberhauptmann Claudius

Hermann Thimig

Pepo

Edith Meller

Lilli

Marga Köhler

Frau des Kommandanten

Paul Graetz

Zofano

Paul Biensfeldt

Dafko

Fritz Rasp

Solider (Uncredited)