The Cornet (1955)

Original title

Der Cornet

Directed by

Walter Reisch

Genre

war film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young soldier serves in the Great Turkish War. The film adapts a famous poem about love and death on the battlefield.

historicalpoeticmelancholicvisually lushslow-burnatmosphericromantictragicwar-torn

What happens

The Cornet (German: Der Cornet. Die Weise von Liebe und Tod) is a 1955 West German historical film war film directed by Walter Reisch and starring Götz von Langheim, Anita Björk and Wolfgang Preiss. Set during the Great Turkish War, the film is related to the 1912 poem The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke. It was shot in Eastmancolor. Location filming took place in Würzburg in Bavaria. The film's sets were designed by the art director Wolf Englert. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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