Capriccio

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Capriccio

1938

1h 46m

5.5(4 votes)

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Comedy

Overview

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...

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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

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Kate Kühl

Gräfin Mallefougasse

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Anton Imkamp

General d'Estroux

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Margot Höpfner

Eve Mallefougasse

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Hedi Höpfner

Anais Mallefougasse

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Gudrun Ady

Klosterschülerin

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Ellen Becker

Manikure bei Henri de Grau

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Heinz Berghaus

Brautwerber

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Josef Dahmen

Brautwerber und Zechkumpane Barberousses

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Ursula Deinert

Ägyptische Tänzerin

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Margit Dörr-Humbrecht

Dicke Charlotte

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Wilhelm Egger-Sell

Brautwerber

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Oskar Eigner

Zechkumpane des Generals

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Margot Erbst

Marie ein Blumenmädchen

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Max Harry Ernst

Gast im Lokal

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Friedel Fibelkorn

Maniküre bei Henri de Grau

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Thea Fischer

Klosterschülerin

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Liselotte Flüster

Tänzerin in Madame Hélènes Tanzsalon

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Georg Georgi

Erster Wirt

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Wilhelm Gerber

Brautwerber

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Kurt Getke

Zechkumpane des Generals

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Friedrich Gnaß

Erster Hahnenkämpfer

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Marianne Grund

Klosterschülerin

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Karl Hannemann

Zweiter Wirt

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Lili Harich

Klosterschülerin

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Max Hiller

Brautwerber

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Annemarie Holtz

Madame Hélène

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Albert Ihle

Zechkumpane

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Fritz Petermann

Zechkumpane

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Moja Petrikowski

Kloster-Oberin

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Erika Raphael

Tanzmädchen

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Arthur Reppert

Zechkumpane des Generals

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M. Schleif

Klosterschülerin

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Paul Schwed

Gendarm

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Franz Schöber

Brautwerber

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Leo Sloma

Zechkumpane

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Werner Stock

Der kleine Page

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Nico Turoff

Zweiter Hahnenkämpfer

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Elisabeth Veit

Klosterschülerin

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Elfriede Volker

Klosterschülerin

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Martha von Konssatzki

Alte Barbara

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Michael von Newlinsky

Brautwerber

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Anna von Palen

Nonne

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Herr Wagner

Zechkumpane

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Karl Wagner

Brautwerber

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Herbert Weißbach

Gerichtsvorsitzender

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