The year is 1760: it is the time of the Seven Years' War and the advancing Russian army has taken captive 100 underage Prussian cadets. The kids are mishandled by the raping and pillaging Russians, but with the help of a Rittmeister now in the service of the Tsar, they succeed in getting away. They hole up in a deserted fort and eventually sally forward to take back their military academy from the bloodthirsty, pillaging Cossacks.
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Mathias Wieman
Rittmeister von Tzülow
Known for
Fear
Carsta Löck
Sophie
Known for
Emil of Lonneberga
Andrews Engelmann
Oberst Goroschew
Known for
Diary of a Lost Girl
Theo Shall
Hauptmann Jupow
Also in
Anna Christie
Red Heels
Erich Walther
General Graf Tschernitschew
Also in
Die Kandidatin
The man in the background
Josef Keim
Feldwebel Schönbrunn
Also in
Fünftausend Mark Belohnung
Doctor Crippen
Willy Kaiser-Heyl
General von Buddenbrock
Also in
Our Heavenly Bodies
The Queen of the Stock Exchange
Wilhelm P. Krüger
Ingenieur Major
Also in
Trouble with Jolanthe
Geheimakte W.B. 1
Lydia Li
Russische Sängerin
Also in
2 Person
Bernd Russbült
Kadett Bork
Also in
Sehnsucht nach Afrika
Klaus Detlef Sierck
Kadett Hohenhausen
Also in
Aus erster Ehe
Kopf hoch, Johannes!
Martin Brendel
Kadett Schack
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Karl Ritter Director
First release September 4, 1939 · Original title Kadetten
Languages
Original title
Kadetten
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · September 4, 1939
Premiere
Germany · December 2, 1941
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No release date listed for United States.
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