The Standard

November. 25,1977      
Rating:
6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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 as  Fähnrich Herbert Menis
Siegfried Rauch as  Botenlauben
Gerd Böckmann as  Anschütz
Robert Hoffmann as  Koch Klein
Jon Finch as  Charbinsky
Peter Cushing as  Baron Hackenberg
Lil Dagover as  Erzherzogin
Wolfgang Preiss as  Oberst
Maria Perschy as  Mordax
Rudolf Prack as  kaiserlicher Hofdiener

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