A Handful of Heroes
Appearance
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Directed by | Fritz Umgelter |
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Produced by | Wolf C. Hartwig |
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Cinematography | Rolf Kästel |
Edited by | Herbert Taschner |
Music by | Angelo Francesco Lavagnino |
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Distributed by | Constantin Film |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
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Language | German |
A Handful of Heroes (German: Eine Handvoll Helden) is a 1967 West German-Italian historical war film directed by Fritz Umgelter and starring Horst Frank, Valeria Ciangottini and Karl-Heinz Fiege .[1]
It is a remake of the 1930 film The Last Company about a detachment of Prussian soldiers who defend a vital outpost against Napoleon's armies around the time of the Battle of Jena (1806).
It was shot on location in Hungary using Eastmancolor.
Cast
[edit]- Horst Frank as Hauptmann Bruck
- Valeria Ciangottini as Angelika
- Karl-Heinz Fiege as Oberjäger Rückert
- Volkert Kraeft as Fahnenjunker Olberg
- Luigi Ciavarro as Steffen
- Martin Lüttge as Jäger Hinnerk
- Rolf Becker as Jäger Borgmann
- Jörg Pleva as Jäger Papke
- Franz Rudnick as Kanonier Kurtz
- Franco Fantasia as Steffen
- Ferenc Zenthe
- Géza Tordy
- György Bánffy
- János Csányi
- Géza Ferdinándy
- Erzsi Orsolya
References
[edit]- ^ Klossner p.170
Bibliography
[edit]- Klossner, Michael. The Europe of 1500–1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000. McFarland & Company, 2002.
External links
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Categories:
- 1967 films
- 1967 war films
- 1960s historical films
- German war films
- German historical films
- Italian war films
- Italian historical films
- West German films
- 1960s German-language films
- Films directed by Fritz Umgelter
- Films set in 1806
- Napoleonic Wars films
- Films shot in Hungary
- Remakes of German films
- Constantin Film films
- Films scored by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
- Siege films
- Films with screenplays by Sergio Donati
- 1960s German films
- 1960s Italian films
- German-language war films
- 1960s German film stubs