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.

• Simon Ward
• Siegfried Rauch
• Gerd Böckmann
• Robert Hoffmann
• Jon Finch
• Peter Cushing
• Lil Dagover
• Wolfgang Preiss