During the Thirty Years' War, Christine, an orphan, falls in love with the colonel Count Merian. In order to always be with him, she puts on men's clothes, becomes a troop boy and later even a cornet - only the sutler knows her secret. Little by little, Christine realizes that the man she loves has been brutalized by the war and is no longer capable of true feelings. When she gives herself to him instead of a peasant maid, she is horrified by his brutality. She shoots him in a duel. She is sentenced to death as a cornet, but acquitted as a woman.
as Merian
as Christine
as Courasche
as Lady Winterton
as Barbara
as Jakob
as Lord Winterton
as Der Fremde
as Sekretär
as Der Wirt
as Hauptmann
as Profos
as Melchior, Barbaras Vater
as Hermann, Barbaras Bruder
as 1.Leutnant
as Laura
as Äbtissin
as Dritter Leutnant
