The Standard (film)

1977 film

Otto Boris Dworak
Ottokar Runze

Starring

Simon Ward
Siegfried Rauch
Peter Cushing

CinematographyMichael EppEdited byTamara EppMusic byHans-Martin Majewski

Production
companies

Neue Thalia-Film
Norddeutsche Filmproduktion
Ottokar Runze Filmproduktion
Producciones Cinematográficas Orfeo

Distributed byGunther Wessel Filmverleih

Release date

18 May 1977 (1977-05-18)

Running time

120 minutesCountries

Austria
Spain
West Germany

Languages

German
English

The Standard (German: Die Standarte) is a 1977 war drama film directed by Ottokar Runze and starring Simon Ward, Siegfried Rauch and Peter Cushing.^[1] It was made as a co-production between Austria, Spain and West Germany. The film is based on the 1934 novel The Standard by Alexander Lernet-Holenia, previously turned into a 1935 film My Life for Maria Isabella in Nazi Germany. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Peter Scharff. Location shooting took place in Vienna and Toledo province in Spain.

Another English-language title of this film is Battle Flag.

Cast

Simon Ward as Officer Menis
Siegfried Rauch as Graf Bottenlauben
Peter Cushing as Baron von Hackenberg
Jon Finch as Major Charbinsky
Viktor Staal as Anton
Verónica Forqué as Louise Lang
Gerd Böckmann as Anschütz
Robert Hoffmann as Koch
Wolfgang Preiss as Oberst
Lil Dagover as Erzherzogin
Maria Perschy as Mordax
Erik Frey as Oberstleutnant
David Robb as English Officer
Michael Janisch as Orbeliani
Friedrich von Ledebur as General
Rudolf Prack as Lakai- Kaiserlicher Diener im Hof
Kurt Sowinetz as Kaiserlischer Diener im Kaminzimmer
Hans Thimig as Hofbeamter

References

^ Goble p.965

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.