Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
Director: Robert Siodmak
Screenplay: Ladislas Fodor, Robert A. Stemmle, Georg Marischka
Producer: Götz Dieter Wulf, Artur Brauner
Director of Photography: Siegfried Hold
Dr. Karl Sternau
Count Alfonso di Rodriganda y Sevilla
Captain Lazoro Verdoja
Josefa
Rosita Arbellez
Karja
Andreas Hasenpfeffer
Benito Juarez