[Radetzkymarsch: DVD video] Franz Joseph Trotta visits the Russian border garrison

[@TheCimbrianBull]

I remember watching this as a mini-series back in 1996. I was 16 years old and was very interested in history so I enjoyed every minute of it.

[@СергійЯремко-п8е]

I was 16 years in 1996 too)

[@tjaycossack6548]

My great grandpa served in the Austrian army and fought against Bismark in the 1860's

[@joe-ob3se]

My grandpa fought against Italians in Alps.

[@albrechtwettin]

My grandfather fought the French and the Italians in the battle of Solferino.

[@flaviusjustinianus]

My great grandpa was a pow by the italians. He said their were nice people, since many Austrians spoke some italian they understood them. The italians told him to work slower "piano, piano" during the pow labour activities an many occasions. In ww2 he was drafted despite old age and had luck jumping on a train fleeing from the front before being overrun by the russians. They said that ww1 and subsequent famine was worse than ww2 food shortages.

[@fload46d]

My word, how cool. Danke schoen fur dieses.

[@kennethduckworth7111]

I love the book. My great grand-father, a Pole, came from a border town not far from Brody, where Joseph Roth was born. Love the book.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

I have ancestors from the same part of the world though I know nothing about them.

[@andreasihrig2976]

Dear God, I love Max von Sydow!

[@fansofst.maximustheconfess8226]

!!!!!!!!

[@horstlohner1910]

Mein Urgroßvater ist im Oktober 1914 an der Ostfront gefallen.Er war wie so viele ein Freiwilliger.Er hat seine Uhr zu Hause gelassen.Vielleicht hat er geahnt,das er nicht mehr zurück kommt?

[@PANZERFAUST90]

;_;

[@СергійЯремко-п8е]

Super, thanks!!

[@MushaverPasha]

Austro-Hungarian Army: one of the most unjustly, unkindly and undeservedly treated military forces in history. Same goes for the empire it served

[@roberthaworth8991]

AH could not overrun the Serbs in '14, even after picking a fight with them; they needed German artillery, supply, and command help to finally beat little Serbia in '15, although it was a closely-fought contest for a few weeks. AH also collapsed in the East against THE RUSSIANS (!) in their first encounter, while at the same time the Germans were whipping the Russians at Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes farther north. After a failed offensive thrust toward Venice, AH held off Italy only by occupying some of the most defensible terrain in the world. Nothwithstanding this, the exchange ratio (defenders to attackers) in the 11 Battles of the Isonzo was around 1:1 -- terrible performance for the defender under such conditions, attesting mostly to bad leadership, bad medical care, and morale issues. The Italian front collapsed anyway as soon as German support was withdrawn from AH in '18, and the AH army had to mount its last offensive alone -- it was destroyed on the Trentino. AH forces had collapsed also in the face of the Brusilov Offensive, Tsarist Russia's last gasp, in '16. Lost virtually their entire navy in a single strike by the British in the Adriatic. One could go on.

[@ДмитрийЖиткевич-ч9х]

@@roberthaworth8991 why do you affected RUSSIANS (!)? It was not unexpectedly for AH to collapse in the east. AH was the first rated enemy for the Russian empire, not the Germany.

[@roberthaworth8991]

@@ДмитрийЖиткевич-ч9х Correct. But the AH were unable to defeat the initial Russian offensive of two armies sent against them, while Germany handled the one directed at them.

[@amare1cro]

@@roberthaworth8991 opening blunders of Conrad who wasted the whole 2nd army between two fronts, unable to help anywhere. Actually they had parity with the Serbians and were outnumbered in Galicia. They had their own two front war, which they couldnt handle well

[@reginaldsakakibara7011]

@@roberthaworth8991 You lose a lot of Austrian and Austro-Hungarian history if you boil the performance of the Habsburg armies all the way down to its performance in WWI. For the nearly four centuries prior to that, the Austrian army is what kept the Habsburgs in power. After losing access to the Spanish treasure fleets when the Spanish branch of the Habsburg family died out with Charles II (the Bewitched), the Austrian Habsburgs, being comparatively impoverished, were forced to employ adaptive statecraft and a defensive posture to survive. It is kind of a tribute to the resilience of their army that they survived the War of Spanish Succession, the War of Austrian Succession, and the Napoleonic Wars. "The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire" by A. Weiss Mitchell goes into a lot more detail about all of this. The decline of the Habsburgs and the AH Empire by extension was laid in the Crimean War when they chose to not intervene on the side of the Russians, who had been guarantors of the Habsburg state since the Revolutions of 1848 and before that in coalitions against the Turks, the Prussians, and the French. Franz Josef then attempted to make the army into an offensive arm instead of a primarily defensive one, which broke from Habsburg military tradition that dated back to Maria Theresa. Every Habsburg before Franz Josef understood that the army "was" the empire, primarily because of the heterogenous nature of the A and then AH's demographics and the lack of hard border features (and in fact many river valleys that served as highways of invasion). He also departed from traditional Habsburg flexible diplomacy and therefore failed to do what every Habsburg who had ever gone to war had successfully done-"turn off" fronts. For example, in the wars against Frederick the Great, the Habsburg rulers had been able to win diplomatic concessions with Istanbul and therefore freed up thousands of "grenzer" border troops on the A's southern frontier for northern campaigning in Galicia. Franz Josef, by contrast, entered the war knowing that AH would have to fight on two fronts. and in this, he failed to recognize the unbroken chain of lessons of his forebears.

[@Rickinsf]

Max von Sydow and Charlotte Rampling...I'm there.

[@abbasabbasi2474]

a very sad movie, I got depressed as I saw in in Austrian TV. That is a stroy of fall and decline of old Austria and dead of young offcier von trotta

[@Снайпер_Хренов]

2:46 The guy running after the Officer reminds me of good soldier Schwejk

[@charleslaughton34]

Wenn sie koennen, bitte komplett hocjladen.

[@prins_af_danmark]

THE SAME THING STILL GOES ON IN PRESENT-DAY RUSSIA. HOW SLOW WE ARE.

[@liaghetta]

I've just read the book. Wonderful! Does anybody know if is this series available?

[@roberthaworth8991]

Definitely early war. Those easily-spotted blue uniforms like the French, shiny buttons and fittings, light equipment and weaponry, that ridiculous sword. And Austrian troops demonstrating a hint of morale. The ankle-deep mud -- everything in the East looks like a shtetl.

[@54blewis]

Also no helmets ,which won’t arrive from Germany until November 1916….in fact practically no army had steel helmets for the infantry at the beginning of the war….inspite of the fact that air burst ordnance had been around for at least a century…

[@Jake-dh9qk]

@@54blewis Well they didn't bother giving troops helmets because they were completely convinced that weapons have won the arms race against armor so there was no point in investing in armor development. Militaries back then also had very sparse analysis on warfare science besides weapons. Things like troop morale, attrition, and type of injuries etc were mostly ignored. Simple things like helmets were rejected because they believe it wouldn't have made a difference to modern warfare.

[@discover854]

Wasnt the first month of the war like the American civil war? Two armies standing in a field and just shoot at each other? The artillery pretty much push both armies into trenches which end up being 4 years of nothing but quagmire of death and destruction.

[@Jake-dh9qk]

@@discover854 Funny thing is there were actually SO MANY wars that happened between the US civil war and up til the first world war. Nations at that time experimented with pre-war artillery, machine guns and breech loading rifles as well as prototype bolt action rifles. They had all these wars to learn and still didn't learn.

[@roberthaworth8991]

@@Jake-dh9qk Militaries are very conservative. In early 1777, British Army ordnance officers were presented with a demonstration of a breech-loading rifle capable of putting five shots per minute into an 8" circle at 100 yards. They turned it down b/c it cost more to manufacture than a Brown Bess musket, would require different training to use, and "would likely occasion too much expense as to ammunition." In our own day, it is said that if you give a US Marine a bowling ball, he would find some way to break it.

[@VonTurtle8282]

my big takeaway from this clip is that the Austrian frontier is in desperate need of some paved roads.

[@Matthan678]

does anyone know if the bluray DVD has English subtitles please? many thanks,

[@andryyakubiv5070]

Теребовля в ті часи була нічим не гіршим містечком ніж десь в Австрії чи Франції. А тут показана якась дикість. В болоті втопитись можна, якась церква суто в московському стилі, якої в Теребовлі просто не могло бути. Це було затишне чисте абсолютно європейське місто.

[@crazy71achmed]

Eine gelungene Verfilmung des Romans ... vielleicht sogar besser als die von 65 mit Lohner.

[@horstlohner1910]

Klar das ich diese Verfilmung besser finde!LOL!

[@crazy71achmed]

@@horstlohner1910 Witzbold! :)

[@axakeydziatowicz7642]

Patrząc na tę scenę w Trembowli przypomina się wierszyk Światopełka Karpińskiego: Chociaż tylko z samolotu, lecz widziałem Polskę całą, tundrę, tajgę, polskie błoto i kozaków armię białą. Na ulicach wilki wyją, ludzie wcale się nie myją, szlachta bije się szablami, i poddanych szczuje psami. Rząd wciąż gnębi Lodomerię, i gna Żydów na Syberię, zaś posłowie z opozycji muszą służyć przy policji.

[@weebtrash944]

Interesting

[@patriciosantibanez5458]

I watched the entire video and I didn't hear the Radetzky March.

[@Gil_Perez]

Which font was used for "K.K.StB" on a train?

[@shelbynamels973]

00:35 a bit of foreshadowing going on with those two orthodox priests.

[@vanbrabant6791]

Joseph Roths Romam dazu lesen. Die beste Ergänzung .

[@vanbrabant6791]

BERICHTIGUNG: Roman

[@dimahacker8981]

Как фильм называется?

[@ChickenDelivering]

Radetzkymarsch (1994)

[@alexeyakimov7511]

Марш Радецкого

[@dimahacker8981]

@@alexeyakimov7511 благодарю

[@yangoldin]

@@alexeyakimov7511 где можно наити на Русском or English (translated or subtitled)?

[@alaincelos476]

Film franco- italo - austrian I do thinck may bé Germany too.​@@yangoldin

[@TheTarget1980]

Schade, hätte gerne noch die Zimmer gesehen.

[@kaiso7322]

The captain at the end of the clip - is this Christoph Waltz ? O.O

[@arthurwellesley1815]

No

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Unmetalled, dirt roads turning into a mudbath after a bit of rain. Later useful for slowing down the German advance further east in 1941.

[@datasilv]

A Nagyapám, a K und K hadsereg főhadnagya volt, és a Monarchiáért, és a Történelmi Magyarországért hullatta a vérét!

[@МихаилБ-ч8у]

А что за минисериал?

[@revoltaiignoto3881]

I tried to bought it from Amazon but I don't seem to find the series.

[@belamoure]

Autrichian Officers had an extremely high rate of casualities during WWI as they were ill trained unprepapred badly equiped and commanded by pure aristocratic incompetents. The plague of that multinational army was decades of sleeping on the switch and compalcency. Max Hastings covers so sadly all the missing joints in modernising that millenarian empire. "Catastrophe 1914 Europe Goes to war". IMO after Sadowa the empire lived on borrowed time. Its fall left a polyvalent void that is not yet filled up.

[@claudiaberger9639]

I am Austrian. My grandfather was a soldier in WWI. My father was a soldier in WWII. This film was commissioned by Austrian Social Democrats and the Social Democratic State Radio (ORF) produced this series. Propaganda from the 1990s.

[@pigmanobvious]

My paternal grandparents both emigrated to America from the old Austro-Hungarian empire shortly before the outbreak of WW1. My grandfather had been a cavalrymen in the army and my dad told me he had on his chest a identification tattoo which consisted of his name, home region and was wrapped in oak leaves. I always tried finding out about this and what they actually looked like. He died years before I was born. Did you ever hear of these tattoos?

[@whatsgoingon71]

Du musst erst einmal das Buch lesen, dann kannst du vielleicht qualifiziert mitreden. 🤦‍♂️

[@jody6851]

Congratulations. Your grandfather fought to defend a dying empire. Your father fought defending Hitler -- the greatest evil ever produced by mankind ... with Stalin a close second.

[@vampirecount3880]

@@jody6851 What are all civilizations but dying empires? Or do you think any criation of men will exist forever? Isnt america a dying empire as well? What are all soldiers but bound by honor to fight for their people no matter who the people choose as their leader? Im brazilian and a trained reservist in the army and if im called i must present myself for duty, doesnt matter if i like the politician in the seat of government or not. Every soldier who fights for his country has my respect. No matter what nationality, if you are brave enough to risk your life for a cause, your family or your custom, you are a hero in my book. @ Claudia Berger You should be proud of them, heroes each one of them. May they have eternal glory.

[@crazy71achmed]

Propaganda aus den 90ern? Weird! :)

[@ИгорьНиколаевич-ф6ь]

Отличились зверствами в Первую мировую войну и геноцидом Название концлагеря напомнить ?

[@clarkhull7546]

These uniforms are way toooo clean

[@GustavoOliveira-xt2pm]

? why would they be dirty, they would have them cleaned just before the march

[@ahoosifoou4211]

Why would they be dirty they are close to their garrison

[@joesila3105]

its only at the begining of the war !!!!

[@ussrwrestling]

Интересно, снимали на Западной Украине??? ))))

[@maringronski160]

Akcja jest w Trembowli, (napis na dworcu), ale na pewno nie jest to kręcone w Trembowli. Poza tym napis jest cześciowo błędny; w tamtym czasie na dworcu kolejowym był napis po polsku: Trembowla i po ukraińsku. A tu jest obok napisu polskiego, drugi raz napis polski tylko zapisany ukraińskimi literami.

[@lewislindsey1946]

What a very sad, very silly diffidence to a person of absolutely no importance. That was and is the sad practice.

[@johngilinsky4714]

Autocracy!

[@Tommy-Atkins]

It’s his Father!....who also happens to be an old Senior officer and decorated war hero....

[@lewislindsey1946]

@@Tommy-Atkins Exactly, one of the countless, foolish old men and "decorated war heroes" who hold sway over others' lives being repeated TODAY in Kabul with just a different generation of foolish old men who made devastating mistakes. The USA is loaded with them. I wonder what the "battle ribbons" will look like that they pass around in the Pentagon after this debacle finally ends? ALL generals do love those ribbons. You can't tell the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Russian Field Marshalls. They do love it so.

[@Tommy-Atkins]

@@lewislindsey1946 ...my old man was a long service British Army warrant officer..he’s 82 now but I’d still run across a muddy field in hob nailed boots to greet him if necessary....sometimes respect for our elders, fathers and senior officers is just instilled ..especially in the wider military family...just maybe not the soy drinking civilian generation of today who look upon most historical etiquette with disgust and disdain.....

[@roberthaworth8991]

@@Tommy-Atkins It's tough when they've wised-up and will no longer reflexively salute those who've started, and lost, war after war.

[@enricoburzacchi1089]

Che DAMA INCANTEVOLE VESTITA DI BIANCO.

[@守屋克巳]

おじいちゃん鉄血サイショウにてますね！

[@liamfoley9614]

Interesting book but they will never understand us.

[@cybersurf5]

care to elaborate, or can I just assume what type of creature you are?

[@liamfoley9614]

@@cybersurf5 yes.

[@caffeinatedbuffalosauce883]

An army of Colin Hanks

[@giovannispinelli8050]

W gli austroungarici, peccato gli imperi centrali siano stati sconfitti

[@jorgelopez-pr6dr]

The Austrian army was ok for operettas, but not for true wars, especially one like that .

[@chrismath149]

No army at that time was ready (except the Serbian who just had come out of two relatively recent wars). Von Hötzendorf gets a lot of flak (righteously) but if Hague or Choffre had commanded the k.u.k. Army not much would have gone differently. The Russians knew the war plans and the army suffered from bad logistics (as the railway system was badly designed).

[@garbancitolentejas486]

Austrian army was in the same level than the others European armies as the French, Russian, etc etc

[@chrismath149]

@@garbancitolentejas486 With the exception of having three different command structures. The Austrian Army, the Hungarian Army and the Landwehr (militia). Austria would have to force Hungary to concessions if it wanted to have an effective force.

[@garbancitolentejas486]

@@chrismath149 I agree. The K und K, the K.k. the K.u and we can add Ersatz... But save British army.. the rest of european armies were very similar...

[@TheCimbrianBull]

@@chrismath149 ah, yes! Colonel Redl (movie from 1984). If you haven't already watched it I can highly recommend it.

[@alejandrodadasvalcarcesanc8254]

De Solferino a Serbia

[@jaymuzquiz2942]

What's happening! I don't speak Dutch! The room's getting smaller I'm freaking out! I should've smoked so much dope!!

[@TheBorgfelder]

The young army officer greets his father, who is a senior civil servant at the Austrian-Hungarian /Russian border (and btw they don't speak Dutch but German with an Austrian dialect).

[@АмальАшимов-х8е]

Tt is not Dutch, it is german