Movie
1980-05-27
90 min
In November 1831, the 51-year-old Prussian Major General Carl von Clausewitz burns the first chapters of his autobiography, which he had begun to write at the insistence of his wife Marie. Shocked by the sudden death of his friend Gneisenau, he is forced to realize that at his friend's deathbed he has finally said goodbye to the hopes and plans that had once determined his life and that of his friends...
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Jürgen Reuter
Carl von Clausewitz
Christine Schorn
Marie von Clausewitz
Dietrich Körner
Klaus Piontek
Erich Gerberding
Hans Teuscher
Irma Münch
Madame de Staël
Rüdiger Joswig
Prinz August
Andreas Knaup
Wilfried Pucher
Jürgen Rothert
Günter Margo
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