Film

Arms and the Man

6.619581h 40m6Comedy Romance

Age rating: 6
Director: Franz Peter Wirth
Year: 1958

1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.

Top cast

O.W. Fischer

Hauptmann Bluntschli

Liselotte Pulver

Raina Petkoff

Ellen Schwiers

Louka

Jan Hendriks

Leutnant Sergius Slivitzna

Ljuba Welitsch

Katharina

Kurt Kasznar

Major Petkoff

Manfred Inger

Nicola

Horst Tappert

Bulgarischer Offizier

Hans Clarin

Serbischer Soldat

Directed by

Franz Peter Wirth

Written by

Johanna Sibelius, George Bernard Shaw, Eberhard Keindorff

Produced by

Harry R. Sokal, Peter Goldbaum