Capriccio
GER 1938. Director: Karl Ritter. Music: Alois Melichar. Writer: Felix Lützkendorf, Rudo Ritter. 99 min. 35mm
Featuring Lilian Harvey, Viktor Staal, Paul Kemp, Aribert Wäscher, Paul Dahlke
To ensure she’d be able to defend herself against dowry hunters, General d’Estroux had his granddaughter brought up like a man. And indeed: after his death, she can only resist a forced marriage with a sword in her hand … In this cinematic opera buffa, Lilian Harvey wears the trousers and unfolds a frivolous confusion of gender roles.

With the kind support of Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung