Spring Parade

Spring Parade

93 mins | Sept. 20, 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.

Spring Parade

93 mins | Sept. 20, 1934

Spring Parade
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.
Producers
Original title Frühjahrsparade
Directors Géza von Bolváry
Writers

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

Piri Vaszary

as Nanette

Annie Rosar

as Frau Taschlmeier

Hans Richter

as Fritzi

Anton Pointner

as Hauptmann Weber

Tibor von Halmay

as Korporal Stadler

Fritz Imhoff

as Feldwebel Mittermeier

Hans Moser

as Friseur Swoboda

Richard Eybner

as Ein Komiteeherr

Alfred Neugebauer

as Kammerdiener Zimmerl