Young Medardus
MovieTitle | Der junge Medardus |
User score | 4.9 |
Release date | Oct 5, 1923 |
Genre | History, Drama |
Director | Michael Curtiz |
Production country | Austria |
Production companies | Sascha-Film |
Run time | 124 min. |
Patriotic Austrian costume drama, about the martyr Medardus who opposed Napoleon's occupation of Vienna in 1809. The plot proceeds in a series of confrontations with Medardus, his mother and sister, the blind exiled Count of Valois, his ambitious daughter, and Napoleon himself (portrayed as a cool strategist), including several brief flashbacks.