Hoch klingt der Radetzkymarsch

Story

Synopsis

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…

Director

Géza von Bolváry

Writers

Hellmut Andics, Kurt Nachmann, Emeric Roboz

Language

German

Country

Austria

Release date

19 September 1958

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  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