Overview

At the battle of Solferino Joseph von Trotta, a lieutenant in the Slovenian infantry, is wounded while saving the life of the young Austrian Emperor Franz-Joseph I. The Emperor rewards him by elevating him in society to a position quite out of keeping with his social rank, and which entirely alienates him from his farming background: Joseph gets promoted to the rank of captain, and is made a member of the nobility. Years later Joseph von Trotta accidentally finds a description of the battle that changed his life in a text-book belonging to his son Franz. Enraged at the over-emotional, patriotic and sentimental way in which the Emperor's rescue at the hands of "the Hero of Solferino" is depicted, he lodges a complaint at the Imperial Court.

Genres

Cast

Max von Sydow

Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje

Charlotte Rampling

Valérie von Taussig

Claude Rich

Dr. Demant

Jean-Louis Richard

Kapturak

Julia Stemberger

Eva Demant

Friedrich von Thun

Rittmeister Taittinger

Ernst Stankovski

Kapellmeister Nechval

Michael Schönborn

Tattenbach

Fritz Muliar

Herr Knopfmacher

Alexander Strobele

Held von Solferino

Karlheinz Hackl

Wagner

Dagmar Koller

Nachtigall aus Mariahilf