Cadets (1941)
1h 30m
Running Time
December 2, 1941Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Mathias Wieman
Rittmeister von Tzülow
Carsta Löck
Sophie - kitchen maid
Andrews Engelmann
Col. Goroschew
Theo Shall
Capt. Jupow
Erich Walther
General Graf Tschernitschew
Josef Keim
Feldwebel Schönbrunn
Karl Ritter
Director
Willy Kaiser-Heyl
General von Buddenbrock
Felix Lützkendorf
Writer
Herbert Windt
Composer
Wilhelm P. Krüger
Ingenieur Major
Lydia Li
Russische Sängerin
Günther Anders
Cinematographer
Bernd Russbült
Kadett Bork
Klaus Detlef Sierck
Kadett Hohenhausen
Walter Röhrig
ProductionDesigner
Martin Brendel
Kadett Schack
Jürgen Mohrbutter
Kadett Potron
Hans Otto Gauglitz
Kadett Lampe
Rolf Ullmann-Schienle
Kadett Jordan
Details.
Release DateDecember 2, 1941
Original NameKadetten
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 30m
Genres
Wiki.
Cadets (German: Kadetten) is a 1939 German historical war film directed by Karl Ritter and starring Mathias Wieman, Carsta Löck, and Andrews Engelmann. The film is set in 1760, against the backdrop of the Austro-Russian Raid on Berlin during the Seven Years' War. It depicts a group of Prussian cadets holding off superior Russian forces.
Because of its anti-Russian theme the film was pulled from release in 1939 following the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. It was put on general release in December 1941, once Germany and the Soviets were at war.The film is loosely connected to the Prussian film cycle of historical epics.