Synopsis
At the battle of Solferino Joseph von Trotta, a lieutenant in the Slovenian infantry, is wounded while saving the life of the young Austrian Emperor Franz-Joseph I. The Emperor rewards him by elevating him in society to a position quite out of keeping with his social rank, and which entirely alienates him from his farming background: Joseph gets promoted to the rank of captain, and is made a member of the nobility. Years later Joseph von Trotta accidentally finds a description of the battle that changed his life in a text-book belonging to his son Franz. Enraged at the over-emotional, patriotic and sentimental way in which the Emperor's rescue at the hands of "the Hero of Solferino" is depicted, he lodges a complaint at the Imperial Court.
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Cast
- Max von SydowBaron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje
- Tilman GüntherBaron Trotta von Sipolje
- Charlotte RamplingValérie von Taussig
- Claude RichDr. Demant
- Jean-Louis RichardKapturak
- Julia StembergerEva Demant
- Gert VossGraf Chojnicki
- Friedrich von ThunRittmeister Taittinger
- Ernst StankovskiKapellmeister Nechval
- Michael SchönbornTattenbach
