During the Thirty Years' War, Christine, an orphan, falls in love with the colonel Count Merian. In order to always be with him, she puts on men's clothes, becomes a troop boy and later even a cornet - only the sutler knows her secret. Little by little, Christine realizes that the man she loves has been brutalized by the war and is no longer capable of true feelings. When she gives herself to him instead of a peasant maid, she is horrified by his brutality. She shoots him in a duel. She is sentenced to death as a cornet, but acquitted as a woman.
Directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt
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Cast
Wolfgang Lukschy
Merian
Petra Peters
Christine
Tilly Lauenstein
Courasche
Ilse Hülper
Lady Winterton
Yvonne Sturm
Barbara
Gerd Frickhöffer
Jakob
Wolfgang Kühne
Lord Winterton
Theodor Vogeler
Der Fremde
Guido Goroll
Sekretär
Fred Kronström
Der Wirt
Hans Emons
Hauptmann
Jean Brahn
Profos
Erich Dunskus
Melchior, Barbaras Vater
Frank Scholze
Hermann, Barbaras Bruder
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