Young Medardus
Film
Young Medardus
Austria- Director
- Michael Curtiz
- Year
- 1923
Patriotic Austrian costume drama, about the martyr Medardus who opposed Napoleon's occupation of Vienna in 1809. The plot proceeds in a series of confrontations with Medardus, his mother and sister, the blind exiled Count of Valois, his ambitious daughter, and Napoleon himself (portrayed as a cool strategist), including several brief flashbacks.
Top cast
Anny Hornik
Agathe, seine Schwester
Mari Hegyesi
Frau Klähr, seine Mutter
Egon von Jordan
Etzel
Mihail Xantho
Napoleon
Mary Stone
Anna
Franz Glawatsch
Berger
Gyula Szöreghy
Eschenbacher
Josef König
Wachshuber
Ludwig Rethey
Duke of Valois
Agnes Esterhazy
Helene
Karel Lamač
Franz
Ferdinand Onno
Marquis de Valois
Victor Varconi
Medardus Klähr
Directed by
Michael Curtiz
Written by
Ladislaus Vajda
Produced by
Arnold Pressburger
