On the eve of the German Peasants' War, the family of the young Christoph falls victim to an act of revenge by the knight Scharfenstein. The peasant leader Joß takes Christoph in. He learns to read, write and use a weapon. When Hieronymus is on his way to fetch a flag to signal an uprising, Christoph discovers treachery. To warn Jerome, he rides after him. But he can no longer save him from arrest and fetches the flag himself. On the way back, he is arrested with it. In prison, he meets Jerome again - and his older brother Jacob, who is an executioner. Jakob wants to let his brother go if he renounces the Peasants' Union. Christoph refuses and is able to escape with the flag.
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Cast
26 people
Fred Delmare
Octavio
Also in
In All Friendship
Zur See
Brigitte Krause
Elsa Joß
Also in
Ferienheim Bergkristall
Flucht aus der Hölle
Walter Beck
Frank Grunwald
Christoph
Günther Fischer
Gerry Wolff
Härtel
Also in
Spuk im Hochhaus
Naked Among Wolves
Ilse Peters
Gudrun Deubener
Holger Mahlich
Henker Jakob
Also in
Traffik
Eolomea
Günter Heimann
Brigitte Kirsten
Leon Niemczyk
Berner
Known for
Knife in the Water
Night Train
Walter Beck Director · Gudrun Deubener Writer Brigitte Kirsten Writer
First release February 9, 1979 · Produced in XG · Production DEFA
Production
DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme
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DEFA
Production
XG
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
Germany · February 9, 1979
Theatrical · West Germany
No release date listed for United States.
Hungary
April 8, 1982 · Theatrical
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