Radetzky March

Overview

At the battle of Solferino Joseph von Trotta, a lieutenant in the Slovenian infantry, is wounded while saving the life of the young Austrian Emperor Franz-Joseph I. The Emperor rewards him by elevating him in society to a position quite out of keeping with his social rank, and which entirely alienates him from his farming background: Joseph gets promoted to the rank of captain, and is made a member of the nobility. Years later Joseph von Trotta accidentally finds a description of the battle that changed his life in a text-book belonging to his son Franz. Enraged at the over-emotional, patriotic and sentimental way in which the Emperor's rescue at the hands of "the Hero of Solferino" is depicted, he lodges a complaint at the Imperial Court.

Cast

Max von Sydow

Baron Franz von Trotta und Sipolje

N/A

Tilman Günther

Baron Trotta von Sipolje

Charlotte Rampling

Valérie von Taussig

Claude Rich

Dr. Demant

Jean-Louis Richard

Kapturak

Julia Stemberger

Eva Demant

N/A

Gert Voss

Graf Chojnicki

Friedrich von Thun

Rittmeister Taittinger

Ernst Stankovski

Kapellmeister Nechval

Michael Schönborn

Tattenbach

Fritz Muliar

Herr Knopfmacher

N/A

Friedrich W. Bauschulte

Kaiser Franz Joseph