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.
Stars: Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hermann Thimig, Edith Meller
Crew: Max Kronert (Art Direction), Hanns Kräly (Writer), Ernst Lubitsch (Writer), Ernst Lubitsch (Director), Theodor Sparkuhl (Director of Photography), Ernst Stern (Art Direction)
Country: Germany
Language: No Language
Studio: Projektions-AG Union
Runtime: 85 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Apr 14, 1921
IMDb: 3.3
