Victoria and Her Hussar (1931) Poster

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Wonderful musical from the Weimar period
cynthiahost2 September 2014
Warning: Spoilers
This was one of the best early musical made in Germany before 33. A world war 1 romance musical.Friedel Schuster plays the countess of a Budapest estate,whose husband ,played by Ivan Petrovich and his servant,played by Erno Verebes, are going to war.Her Brother.played by Willey Stettner , whose the count doesn't .When Ivan is missing in action with his servant, Freidel thinks he's dead,so she ends up marrying the American ambassador,played by Bass And Baritone singer Michael Bohnen.It turns out that both Ivan and Erno are in a Russian prison for spying.They are about to be executed,but Willey gives his violin to the Russian cassock,played by Julius Falkenstien,so they escape.They both end up in Japan and Ivan discovers that Friedl is in Japan to,only to discover she's married Michael.Not knowing that Ivan is her husband Michale agrees to take Both men back to Budapest ,since he's going to be a consulate there.Freidl acts discreet.Erno fall in love with Lady in Waiting played by Gretl Theimer.Willey is in engaged to Japanese girl name O Lia played by Else Elster.One their way to Budapest by Russia ,at the consulate A bunch of Cossacks, with their leader played by,Gyula Szorenghy,Michael is given a paper that explaining that Ivan was a spy and must be shot and is revealed to be his wife's first husband.Michael gets mad a Freidal .Freidal and Erno are upset at this .She ends up divorcing Michal.Back at home in Budapest,Michael show up begging to start all over again,when all of a sudden Ivan show sup too .He was never shot.They are back together .There are some good musical number with this.One of the main song played a few times.09/02/14
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