The boy Simplizissimus grows up with simple farmers in the Spessart region. But the idyll is abruptly destroyed by the Thirty Years' War. Simplizissimus is sent to the besieged fortress of Hanau. When the lansquenets there play crude jokes on him, he flees with his friend Herzbruder to the Croats. But even here he does not fare much better.
as Einsiedel
as Meuder
as Grubernator Ramsey
as Oberst Corpes
as Stallmeister
as Anna
as Feldprediger
as Bauer
as Bauer
as Knan
as Olivier
