The Standard (1977)
Die Standarte
During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, simply try to survive by any means possible.
- Date of release
- 1977-11-25
- TMDB
- 4.2 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 2h 0m
- Genres
- War, Action, Romance
- Director
- Ottokar Runze
Casting
- Simon Ward — Fähnrich Herbert Menis
- Siegfried Rauch — Botenlauben
- Gerd Böckmann — Anschütz
- Robert Hoffmann — Koch Klein
- Jon Finch — Charbinsky
- Peter Cushing — Baron Hackenberg
- Lil Dagover — Erzherzogin
- Wolfgang Preiss — Oberst
- Maria Perschy — Mordax
- Rudolf Prack — kaiserlicher Hofdiener
- Friedrich von Ledebur — General
- Viktor Staal — Anton
Interesting facts
The Standard is a 1977 war drama film directed by Ottokar Runze and starring Simon Ward, Siegfried Rauch and Peter Cushing. It was made as a co-production between Austria, Spain and West Germany. The film is based on the 1934 novel The Standard by Alexander Lernet-Holenia, previously turned into a 1935 film My Life for Maria Isabella in Nazi Germany. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
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