Capriccio

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...

Cast

Lilian Harvey

Madelone alias Don Juan de Casanova

Paul Dahlke

Césaire, ihr Vormund

Aribert Wäscher

Präfekt Barberousse

Viktor Staal

Fernand de Villeneuve, ein Kavalier

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