Cadets

Cadets

90 mins | Drama, War, History | Dec. 2, 1941

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.

Cadets

90 mins | Drama, War, History | Dec. 2, 1941

Cadets
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.
Producers
Original title Kadetten
Directors Karl Ritter
Writers

Cast

Mathias Wieman

as Rittmeister von Tzülow

Carsta Löck

as Sophie

Andrews Engelmann

as Oberst Goroschew

Theo Shall

as Hauptmann Jupow

Erich Walther

as General Graf Tschernitschew

Josef Keim

as Feldwebel Schönbrunn

Willy Kaiser-Heyl

as General von Buddenbrock

Wilhelm P. Krüger

as Ingenieur Major

Lydia Li

as Russische Sängerin

Bernd Russbült

as Kadett Bork

Klaus Detlef Sierck

as Kadett Hohenhausen

Martin Brendel

as Kadett Schack

Jürgen Mohrbutter

as Kadett Potron

Hans Otto Gauglitz

as Kadett Lampe

Rolf Ullmann-Schienle

as Kadett Jordan