Hoch klingt der Radetzkymarsch

Hoch klingt der Radetzkymarsch

1958 · ★ 6.8 · 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…

Directed by Géza von Bolváry · Written by Hellmut Andics

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

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