A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills.

George Peppard
as Lt. Bruno Stachel

James Mason
as General Count von Klugermann

Ursula Andress
as Countess Kaeti von Klugermann

Jeremy Kemp
as Willi von Klugermann

Karl Michael Vogler
as Colonel Otto Heidemann

Anton Diffring
as Holbach

Harry Townes
as Kettering

Peter Woodthorpe
as Rupp

Derek Newark
as Ziegel

Derren Nesbitt
as Fabian
Wuchak
***World War I aerial combat from the German perspective*** During World War I a low-class German soldier, Bruno Stachel (George Peppard), transfers from the muddy trenches to the aristocratic air officer corps. Stachel becomes a bit of a fish out of water with his new higher class comrades-in-ar...