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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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
EK
Erwin Kopp
Tripo