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.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writer: Hanns Kräly, Ernst Lubitsch
Director of Photography: Theodor Sparkuhl
Producer: Paul Davidson
Rischka
Kommandant der Festung Tossenstein
Leutnant Alexis
Räuberhauptmann Claudius
Pepo
Lilli
Frau des Kommandanten
Zofano