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Caprice de princesse (1933)

Caprice de princesse poster
Directed by
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Karl Hartl
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany, France
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A princess trades places with a shop girl and experiences ordinary life. She finds herself in romantic entanglements and comedic situations.

lightheartedbriskwhimsicalromanticplayfulclassiccharmingslightly farcical

What happens

The Princess's Whim (French: Caprice de princesse) is a 1934 French-German comedy film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot and Karl Hartl and starring Marie Bell, Albert Préjean and Armand Bernard. It was produced as the French-language version of the 1933 German film Her Highness the Saleswoman and distributed by L'Alliance Cinématographique Européenne, the French subsidiary of UFA. It is based on the play My Sister and I by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil. It was shot at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin.The film's sets were designed by the art director Werner Schlichting. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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