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Hoch klingt der Radetzkymarsch

1958 · Comedy

In the Vienna of the Biedermeier era, the young Carl makes a delicate wager with two officers: If he does not succeed in presenting a new romantic adventure by the next day, he has to treat the soldiers to ten bottles of sparkling wine. Albeit he tries in vain to seduce the pretty maid Franzi, Carl brags about his alleged conquest the next day in his favourite pub. When the senior lieutenant Stephan, who is head over heels in love with Franzi, hears about Carl’s putative success, he writes, out of his lovelornness, a catchy song about the carefree maids of Vienna. The song becomes the talk of the town — but the Viennese maids are so disgruntled about the earworm that they go on strike in protest at the grand Radetzky ball…

Cast

• Johanna Matz as Franzi Lechner
• Walther Reyer as Stephan Fischbacher
• Winnie Markus as Lina Strobl
• Chariklia Baxevanos as Mizzi
• Boy Gobert as Carl von Heymendorf
• Gustav Knuth as Waldemar Graf Hatzberg zu Eberstein
• Paul Hörbiger as Generalfeldmarschall Radetzky
• Walter Müller as Lazi von Doloman
• Oskar Sima as Anton Fischbacher
• Susi Nicoletti as Leonie von Heymendorf
• Ernst Waldbrunn as Polizeikommissar Magerl
• Heinz Conrads as Schestak

Details

Director

Géza von Bolváry

Released

September 19, 1958

Genres

Comedy

Studio

Sascha-Film Produktions GmbH and Lux Film

Status

Released

TMDB score

6.8 / 10 from 3 votes