Ultimatum

Oct 27, 1938

1h 23m

★ 0.0

Overview

About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.

Genres

War

Drama

Production Companies

Forrester-Parant Productions

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Cast

General Simovic

Erich von Stroheim

Captain Karl Burgstaller

Abel Jacquin

Stanko Salic

Bernard Lancret

Anna Salic

Dita Parlo

Ristic

Georges Rollin

Legrain

Marcel André

Usir

Raymond Aimos

Irina

Lila Kedrova

Serbian Officer

Pierre Nay

Serbian Officer

René Alié

Serbian Officer

Nino Constantini

Colonel serbe

Lucien Pascal

Yvonne von Krutz, a Belgian, lives with her German husband Karl, whom she was forced to marry, and her spirited little brother Jacques in a farmhouse on the Belgian countryside. With the German invasion of Belgium, Karl joins the German forces, and Jacques is taken to a reformatory to be trained as a munitions worker. When Karl is taken prisoner, Capt. Jefferson Strong, an American engineer, assumes the German's identity and discovers an underground supply of explosives near the von Krutz farm. By means of a tunnel, the Americans plan to mine the explosives. To save Jacques and a group of children from the munitions factory, however, Jefferson sends them across the American lines through the tunnel, but they lose their way, and he is forced to disable the mine. Jefferson is court-martialed, but King Albert of Belgium, who has befriended little Jacques, intercedes on his behalf. Learning that Karl has been killed, Jefferson pursues his budding romance with Yvonne.

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