A Handful of Heroes

1967 film

Sergio Donati
Henry Koster
Werner P. Zibaso

Produced byWolf C. HartwigStarring

Horst Frank
Valeria Ciangottini
Karl-Heinz Fiege [de]

CinematographyRolf KästelEdited byHerbert TaschnerMusic byAngelo Francesco Lavagnino

Production
companies

Rapid Film
Produzioni Europee Associati

Distributed byConstantin Film

Release date

17 November 1967 (1967-11-17)

Running time

94 minutesCountries

West Germany
Italy

LanguageGerman

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 [de].^[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

Horst Frank as Hauptmann Bruck
Valeria Ciangottini as Angelika
Karl-Heinz Fiege [de] as Oberjäger Rückert
Volkert Kraeft as Fahnenjunker Olberg
Luigi Ciavarro as Steffen
Martin Lüttge [de] as Jäger Hinnerk
Rolf Becker as Jäger Borgmann
Jörg Pleva [de] as Jäger Papke
Franz Rudnick [de] as Kanonier Kurtz
Franco Fantasia as Steffen
Ferenc Zenthe
Géza Tordy
György Bánffy
János Csányi
Géza Ferdinándy
Erzsi Orsolya

References

^ Klossner p.170

Bibliography

Klossner, Michael. The Europe of 1500–1815 on Film and Television: A Worldwide Filmography of Over 2550 Works, 1895 Through 2000. McFarland & Company, 2002.