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".
Cast:
Wolfgang Preiss, Peter van Eyck, Benno Sterzenbach, Fritz Rasp, Eduard Köck
Freiherr von Pirovano
Mönchschreiber
Rittmeister Reningen
Großwesir
Falkenier
Gräfin von Zathmar
