''The Beautiful Adventure'' (german: Das schöne Abenteuer) is a 1932 German
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typic ...
film directed by
Reinhold Schünzel and starring
Käthe von Nagy
Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser, better known by her stage name Käthe von Nagy (4 April 1904 – 20 December 1973), was a Hungarian actress, model, dancer, and singer who worked in the German and French cinema.
Early life and education
Käthe von Nag ...
,
Wolf Albach-Retty and
Alfred Abel
Alfred Peter Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937) was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang' ...
.
[Kreimeier p. 198] It was shot at the
Babelsberg Studios
Babelsberg Film Studio (german: Filmstudio Babelsberg), located in Potsdam-Babelsberg outside Berlin, Germany, is the second oldest large-scale film studio in the world only preceded by the Danish Nordisk Film (est. 1906), producing films since ...
in
Berlin
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and premiered at the city's
Gloria-Palast
The Gloria-Palast was a German cinema located on the Kurfürstendamm in the German capital Berlin. It was constructed in 1924 and replaced the existing neo-Baroque Romanischen Hauses designed by Franz Heinrich Schwechten. It became a common lo ...
cinema. The film's sets were designed by the
art director Werner Schlichting. A separate
French language version was also made.
Plot
On her wedding day a young bride takes off with her cousin, who she has always loved.
Cast
See also
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''The Beautiful Adventure'' (1917 film)
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''The Beautiful Adventure'' (1942 film)
References
Bibliography
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External links
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1932 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
German romantic comedy films
1932 romantic comedy films
1930s German-language films
Films directed by Reinhold Schünzel
UFA GmbH films
German multilingual films
German films based on plays
Films set in France
German black-and-white films
1932 multilingual films
1930s German films
Films shot at Babelsberg Studios
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