Capriccio

Story

Synopsis

Lilian Harvey plays a young heiress in long-ago France named Madelon who is raised by her grandfather as a boy in order to frighten away fortune hunters. But when the old man dies, her guardian Cesaire wants to marry her off to the rich prefect Barberousse. She is tricked by Cesaire with the portrait of a young man (Viktor von Staal) which is presented to her as that of her future husband. But when Madelone discovers this scheme she flees, again in men's clothing. But on her route to escape, she meets the young man from the portrait and falls in love with him. But Madelone can't give up her disguise right now...

Director

Karl Ritter

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

10 August 1938

Ensemble

Cast

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  Lilian Harvey

  Madelone alias Don Juan de Casanova

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  Paul Dahlke

  Césaire, ihr Vormund

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  Aribert Wäscher

  Präfekt Barberousse

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  Viktor Staal

  Fernand de Villeneuve, ein Kavalier

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  Paul Kemp

  Henri de Grau, sein Freund

• Kate Kühl

  Gräfin Mallefougasse

• Anton Imkamp

  General d'Estroux

• Margot Höpfner

  Eve Mallefougasse

• Hedi Höpfner

  Anais Mallefougasse

• Gudrun Ady

  Klosterschülerin

• Ellen Becker

  Manikure bei Henri de Grau

• Heinz Berghaus

  Brautwerber