Frühjahrsparade (1934)
This Hungarian musical comedy (English title: Spring Parade) was produced by Joseph Pasternak, who later remade the picture in Hollywood as a Deanna Durbin vehicle. The original 1934 version stars Franciska Gaal as a Hungarian serving girl who heads to Vienna to visit a relative. Stopping over at an outdoor carnival, Gaal is told by a fortune teller that she will enjoy a happy marriage with a handsome and wealthy stranger. Later on, she finds herself at a fancy dress ball, where a good-looking aristocrat, assuming that our heroine is a countess masquerading as a peasant, falls in love with her. Delighted that the fortune-teller's prophecy seems to be coming true, Gaal finds herself in a dilemma when she falls in love with poverty-stricken soldier Wolf Albach Retty. But things turn out OK when Retty, the regimental drummer, composes a hit song which brings him fame and fortune, thereby neatly fulfilling that prophecy.
- Date of release
- 1934-09-20
- TMDB
- 4.7 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Géza von Bolváry
Casting
- Paul Hörbiger — Kaiser Franz Joseph
- Franziska Gaal — Marika
- Wolf Albach-Retty — Wilhelm August Jurek
- Theo Lingen — Baron Zorndorf
- Adele Sandrock — Gräfin Burgstätten
- Piri Vaszary — Nanette
- Annie Rosar — Frau Taschlmeier
- Hans Richter — Fritzi
- Anton Pointner — Hauptmann Weber
- Tibor von Halmay — Korporal Stadler
- Fritz Imhoff — Feldwebel Mittermeier
- Hans Moser — Friseur Swoboda
Interesting facts
Spring Parade is a 1934 comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Paul Hörbiger, Franciska Gaal, and Wolf Albach-Retty.
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