Released:
1934-09-20

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.

Director:
Géza von Bolváry

Runtime:
1h 33min

Genre:

• Cast:
• 
  Paul Hörbiger
  as
  Kaiser Franz Joseph
• 
  Franziska Gaal
  as
  Marika
• 
  Wolf Albach-Retty
  as
  Wilhelm August Jurek
• 
  Theo Lingen
  as
  Baron Zorndorf
• 
  Adele Sandrock
  as
  Gräfin Burgstätten