When two Russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago a comrade of them made a resting at the post station and fell in love with the station master's daughter. He promised everything to her and finally convinced her to come with him to St. Petersburg. When both arrived there she had to realize that her captain never had the intention to marry her.
Acting
Hilde Krahl's heartbreaking descent from hope to ruin.
Production
Lavish imperial Russia sets masking darker ideological purposes.
Director
Gustav Ucicky
Heinrich George
Der Postmeister
Hilde Krahl
Dunja
Siegfried Breuer
Rittmeister Minskij
Hans Holt
Fähnrich Mitja
Margit Symo
Mascha
Hugo Gottschlich
Diener des Rittmeisters
Ruth Hellberg
Elisawetha
Erik Frey
Sergej
Alfred Neugebauer
Gutsbesitzer
Leo Peukert
Oberst
Reinhold Häussermann
Schneider
Auguste Pünkösdy
Wirobowa
Anton Pointner
Der Kavalier des Rittmeisters
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nazi Germany's UFA studio produced this 'anti-Russian' film during WWII, weaponizing Pushkin's 1831 story to portray imperial Russian aristocracy as morally bankrupt.
Director Gustav Ucicky was half-Jewish but received a 'honorary Aryan' certificate from Hitler personally, allowing him to continue directing throughout the Nazi era.
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