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1967 film

A Handful of Heroes

Directed by	Fritz Umgelter
Written by	Sergio Donati Henry Koster Werner P. Zibaso
Produced by	Wolf C. Hartwig
Starring	Horst Frank Valeria Ciangottini Karl-Heinz Fiege [de]
Cinematography	Rolf Kästel
Edited by	Herbert Taschner
Music by	Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Production companies	Rapid Film Produzioni Europee Associati
Distributed by	Constantin Film
Release date	17 November 1967 (1967-11-17)
Running time	94 minutes
Countries	West Germany Italy
Language	German

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].

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.

External links

A Handful of Heroes at IMDb

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