During the Napoleanic Wars, members of the Prussian Lützow Free Corps steal a French war chest from the house of collaborator Kerstinn, but their captain Friesen is captured and sentenced to death. But Friesen is saved by French Sergeant Fleuron and they flee the occupied city together. Kerstinn's daughter Marie is disgusted by her father's disloyalty and has also fallen in love with Friesen. When she learns about a trap that is being set for Lützow Free Corps, she sets out to warn them with the help of her father's clerk Püttchen, a Lützow sympathizer.
as Hauptmann Friesen
as Schreiber Püttchen
as Hauptmann Bredow
as Major Margent
as Oberleutnant Röder
as Leutnant Kranz
as Sergeant Fleuron
as Jäger Knaup
as Major Lützow
as Marie
as Ratsherr Kerstinn
as Kaufmann Trauberg
as Ein Lützower