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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].^[1]

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

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