Released:
1980-05-27

Overview:
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...

Director:
Wolf-Dieter Panse

Runtime:
1h 30min

Genre:
History, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Jürgen Reuter
  as
  Carl von Clausewitz
• 
  Christine Schorn
  as
  Marie von Clausewitz
• 
  Dietrich Körner
• 
  Klaus Piontek
• 
  Erich Gerberding