Spring Parade (1934)
1h 33m
Running Time
September 20, 1934Release Date
Spring Parade (1934)
1h 33m
Running Time
September 20, 1934Release Date
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Franziska Gaal
Marika
Wolf Albach-Retty
Korporal Wilhelm August Jurek
Paul Hörbiger
Kaiser Franz Joseph
Adele Sandrock
Gräfin Burgstätten
Theo Lingen
Baron Zorndorf
Piri Vaszary
Nanette
Géza von Bolváry
Director
Annie Rosar
Frau Taschlmeier
Details.
Release DateSeptember 20, 1934
Original NameFrühjahrsparade
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 33m
Wiki.
Spring Parade (German: Frühjahrsparade, pronounced [ˈfʁyːjaːɐ̯paˌʁaːdə]) is a 1934 comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Paul Hörbiger, Franciska Gaal, and Wolf Albach-Retty.The film was made by the German subsidiary of Universal Pictures to whom Gaal was under contract. However the rise of the Nazi Party to power meant that Gaal and several other Jewish figures involved with the film had to work in Budapest and Vienna. The film's sets were designed by art director Emil Hasler.
In 1940 the film was remade in Hollywood as Spring Parade. The screenwriter Ernst Marischka and producer Joe Pasternak worked on both films.