A Wedding Dream Explained

A Wedding Dream
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Director:Erich Engel
Producer:Karl Julius Fritzsche
Starring:Ida Wüst
Heinz Salfner
Inge List
Music:Peter Kreuder
Cinematography:Friedl Behn-Grund
Editing:Walter Fredersdorf
Studio:Tobis Film
Distributor:Tobis Film
Tobis-Sascha Film (Austria)
Runtime:96 minutes
Country:Germany
Language:German

A Wedding Dream (German: Ein Hochzeitstraum) is a 1936 German comedy film directed by Erich Engel and starring Ida Wüst, Heinz Salfner and Inge List.[1] It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios of Tobis Film in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Karl Haacker and Hermann Warm.

Plot

Taking place just after the First World War in Poland close to the border with Russia where a widow runs a successful inn. She has made enough money and now wishes to settle down and marry a nobleman, which will consequently allow her daughter Vera to make a good social match. However things go wrong during a holiday on the French Riviera when her daughter falls in love with a chauffeur instead of the prince she had planned for her. To cap it all she discovers that the supposed nobleman she herself has married is in fact just a servant.

Cast

Notes and References

  1. Book: Waldman, Harry. Nazi Films in America, 1933-1942. McFarland & Company. 2008. 132. 9780786492060.