In 1945 the fate of Vienna's famous Lipizzaner stallions hangs into balance. American general Patton could save them but first he asks to see them perform.

In WWII Austria, Col. Alois Podhajsky must protect his beloved Lipizzaner stallions and make sure that they are surrendered into the right hands. But Patton's something of a horse fancier and can help...if he sees the stallions perform.—Kathy Li

A dramatization of a real life story. 1945. Under the direction of famed Austrian horseman Colonel Alois Podhajsky, the world famous Spanish Riding School and their unmistakable white Lipizzaner horses have largely remained unscathed, although the Nazis, who have militarized the school, have made some objectionable decisions including moving all the mares to Czechoslovakia leaving only the performing stallions at the school in Vienna. But as the end of the war seems imminent with the defeat of the Nazis and the fall of Vienna in it increasingly being bombed by the Allied forces, the Nazis become more desperate in their defiance, including putting many of the Austrian soldiers at the school back into battle service and refusing Podhajsky's request to move the school into the relative safety of the Austrian countryside away from the bombing. He goes to extreme measures, including defying direct Nazi orders, to save the school and the stallions. Even if he is able to save them during this perilous time to the end of the war, Podhajsky will still have to reunite the school as a whole for its survival as without the mares, the Lipizzaner breed will die off.—Huggo