''Spring Parade'' (german: Frühjahrsparade, ) is a 1934 comedy film directed by

Géza von Bolváry Géza von Bolváry (born Géza Gyula Mária Bolváry Zahn, german: Géza Maria von Bolváry-Zahn; 26 December 1897 – 10 August 1961) was a Hungarians, Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Aust ...

and starring Paul Hörbiger,

Franciska Gaal Franciska Gaal (born Franciska Silberspitz, 1 February 1903 – 13 August 1972) was a Hungarian cabaret artist and film actress of Jewish heritage. Gaal starred in a popular series of European romantic comedies during the 1930s. After attractin ...

, 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 Art director is the title for a variety of similar job functions in theater, advertising, marketing, publishing, fashion, film industry, film and television, the Internet, and video games. It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...

Emil Hasler. In 1940 the film was remade in

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as '' Spring Parade''. The screenwriter Ernst Marischka and producer Joe Pasternak worked on both films.

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References

Bibliography

* Von Dassanowsky, Robert. ''Screening Transcendence: Film Under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope, 1933-1938''. Indiana University Press, 2018

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* Hungarian comedy films 1930s historical comedy films Films directed by Géza von Bolváry Films produced by Joe Pasternak Films set in the 1890s Films set in Vienna Hungarian black-and-white films Austrian black-and-white films German black-and-white films 1934 comedy films Films scored by Robert Stolz German historical comedy films Austrian historical comedy films 1930s German films {{Austria-film-stub