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 Rosalie
as Zullewitz
as Leupold
as Frau von Zullewitz
as Jäger
as Leutnant
as Profoss
as Springinsfeld
as Oberst Zwirnbeiss
