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.

Credits

Ernst LubitschDirector

Pola NegriRischka

Victor JansonKommandant der Festung Tossenstein

Paul HeidemannLeutnant Alexis

Wilhelm DiegelmannRäuberhauptmann Claudius