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.
Created by Gernot Roll
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Max von Sydow
Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje
Tilman Günther
Baron Trotta von Sipolje
Charlotte Rampling
Valérie von Taussig
Claude Rich
Dr. Demant
Jean-Louis Richard
Kapturak
Julia Stemberger
Eva Demant
Gert Voss
Graf Chojnicki
Friedrich von Thun
Rittmeister Taittinger
Ernst Stankovski
Kapellmeister Nechval
Michael Schönborn
Tattenbach
Fritz Muliar
Herr Knopfmacher
Friedrich W. Bauschulte
Kaiser Franz Joseph
Alexander Strobele
Held von Solferino
Karlheinz Hackl
Wagner
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