
February 8, 1931 · 95 years old

A Confederate officer returns home in the wake of the Civil War, where he gets embroiled in local feuds involving an unscrupulous strongman and his hired henchmen.

Prince Rudolf, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, deliberately provokes his father, Kaiser Franz Joseph, by his dissolute and feckless behaviour. His defiance of the Kaiser's rigid adherence to duty and the good of...