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 NegriRischka
- Victor JansonKommandant der Festung Tossenstein
- Paul HeidemannLeutnant Alexis
- Wilhelm DiegelmannRäuberhauptmann Claudius
- Hermann ThimigPepo
- Edith MellerLilli
- Marga KöhlerFrau des Kommandanten
- Paul GraetzZofano
- Erwin KoppTripo
- Paul BiensfeldtDafko
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- Ernst LubitschDirector
- Hanns KrälyWriter
- Ernst LubitschWriter
- Theodor SparkuhlDirector of Photography
- Paul DavidsonProducer
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