The film depicts the failed 1809 uprising of Prussian soldiers led by Ferdinand von Schill against the occupying French during the Napoleonic War.
Director:
Rudolf Meinert
Major von Schill
Leopold von Ledebur
Freiherr von Wedel
Mary Nolan
Marie von Wedel, his daughter
Ernst Rückert
Fritz von Wedel, his son
Grete Reinwald
Königin Luise
Gustav Adolf Semler
König Friedrich Wilhelm III von Preußen
