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.
Directed by Géza von Bolváry
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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
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