Frühjahrsparade

Frühjahrsparade — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 20, 1934
• Runtime
• 93 min
• Genres
• Comedy
• Director
• Géza von Bolváry

Frühjahrsparade — 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