The Standard

Directed by Ottokar Runze

With Simon Ward, Siegfried Rauch, Gerd Böckmann, Robert Hoffmann and Jon Finch

During the final days of the First World War, Officer Menis does his duty in defending the battle flag of the defeated Austro-Hungarian empire, while his fellow troops, a motley gang recruited from several different countries not loyal to the royal family, simply try to survive by any means possible.