Frühjahrsparade

Overview

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.

Cast

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

Richard Eybner

Ein Komiteeherr

Alfred Neugebauer

Kammerdiener Zimmerl

Alfred Gerasch

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