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'The Standard' (German: 'Die Standarte') is a 1977 war drama film directed by Ottokar Runze and starring Simon Ward, Siegfried Rauch and Peter Cushing.Goble p.965 It was made as a co-production between Austria, Spain and West Germany. The film is based on the 1934 novel 'The Standard' by Alexander Lernet-Holenia, previously turned into a 1935 film 'My Life for Maria Isabella' in Nazi Germany. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

The film's sets were designed by the art director Peter Scharff. Location shooting took place in Vienna and Toledo province in Spain.

Another English-language title of this film is 'Battleflag'.

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* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. 'The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema'. Berghahn Books, 2009.

* Goble, Alan. 'The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film'. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.


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