The romantic love and heroic death of a young cornet who rode into battle against the Turks in the mid-17th century. Based on Rainer Maria Rilke’s "The Ballad of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke".
Walter Reisch
Director

Wolfgang Preiss
Freiherr von Pirovano

Peter van Eyck
Mönchschreiber

Benno Sterzenbach
Rittmeister Reningen

Fritz Rasp
Großwesir

Eduard Köck
Falkenier

Anita Björk
Gräfin von Zathmar