Frau Sixta (Franziska Kinz) lives in the Austrian alps, near to the italian border and is head of a post station. After her man died she also has to take care of the farm. One day a stranger arrives with the stagecoach. Markus (Gustav Frhlich) is a retired major, who wants to start a new life in Italy. Frau Sixta persuades him to stay and manage the farm and they begin having ...
Film about the trials and tribulations of the German soldier on the Western Front throughout the year 1917. A grim look into what the First World War looked like from “the other side”. The concluding scene showing a dying English prisoner in the German trenches surrounded by his sympathetic enemy at the Christmas tree says more about the film’s message than anything else. The f...
Hans, Girgl, Fritz and Max return to Munich after the end of Great War. What awaits them is chock. Proletariat under the guidance of Soviet agents try to overthrow the goverment. Each of the war friends have his own reasons and joins either comunists or the volunteer corps to protect the fatherland. They all meet once again during that civil war...
