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Release, runtime and language
1940 · 92 mins · German
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Directed by
Gustav Ucicky
Starring
Siegfried Breuer, Bernhard Wicki, Heinrich George, Erik Frey, Hans Holt, Leo Peukert

Two Russian cavalry captains stop at a German post station, prompting one to recount a decade‑old tale. Ten years earlier his comrade had rested there, fallen for the postmaster’s daughter, and promised marriage before whisking her to St. Petersburg. Upon arrival she discovers the captain never intended to wed her.

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