''The Road to Paradise'' (French: ''Le chemin du paradis'') is a 1930

musical comedy film Musical film is a film genre in which songs by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, but in some cases, they serve merely as breaks ...

directed by

Wilhelm Thiele Wilhelm Thiele (1890–1975) was an Austrian screenwriter and film director. He directed over 40 films between 1921 and 1960. Life and career Thiele started his show career as a stage actor. He got his start in Austrian and German film during t ...

and

Max de Vaucorbeil Max de Vaucorbeil (1901–1982) was a Belgian film director.Goble p.478 Selected filmography * ''The Road to Paradise'' (1930) * ''Captain Craddock'' (1932) * ''Princess, At Your Orders!'' (1931) * ''A Weak Woman'' (1933) * ''Mademoiselle Béatri ...

and starring

Lilian Harvey Lilian Harvey (born Helene Lilian Muriel Pape; 19 January 1906 – 27 July 1968) was an Anglo-German actress and singer, long based in Germany, where she is best known for her role as Christel Weinzinger in Erik Charell's 1931 film ''Der Kongre ...

, Henri Garat and René Lefèvre.O'Brien p.74 It was made by the German studio

UFA Ufa ( ba, Өфө , Öfö; russian: Уфа́, r=Ufá, p=ʊˈfa) is the largest city and capital of Bashkortostan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Belaya and Ufa rivers, in the centre-north of Bashkortostan, on hills forming the ...

as the

French-language French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ...

version of the hit film '' The Three from the Filling Station''.

Cast

as Liliane Bourcart * Henri Garat as Willy * René Lefèvre as Jean *

Jacques Maury Jacques Maury (10 November 1920 – 12 April 2020) was a French pastor. Biography Jacques was the son of Pierre Maury, a dogmatic professor at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris. Pierre Maury introduced the ideas of Karl Barth in France. ...

as Guy *

Gaston Jacquet Gaston Émile Marius Jacquet (14 August 1883 – 28 January 1970) was a French actor. Jacquet was born in Lanas, Ardèche, France and died in 1970 in Thonex in Switzerland. Selected filmography * ''Les Trois Mousquetaires'' (1921) * ''Th ...

as Monsieur Bourcart *

Olga Tschechowa Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova (; russian: Ольга Константиновна Чехова; 14 April 1897 – 9 March 1980), known in Germany as Olga Tschechowa, was a Russian-German actress. Her film roles include the female lead in Alfred ...

as Edith de Tourkoff * Hubert Daix as Maitre Dupont-Belleville * Jean Boyer as L'huissier * Lewis Ruth as Orchestra Leader / Himself *

Comedian Harmonists The Comedian Harmonists were an internationally famous, all-male German close harmony ensemble that performed between 1928 and 1934 as one of the most successful musical groups in Europe before World War II. The group consisted of Harry Frommerm ...

as Themselves

References

Bibliography

* O'Brien, Charles. ''Cinema's Conversion to Sound: Technology and Film Style in France and the U.S.''. Indiana University Press, 2005.

External links

* 1930 films German musical comedy films 1930 musical comedy films 1930s French-language films Films directed by Wilhelm Thiele UFA GmbH films German multilingual films Films with screenplays by Franz Schulz German black-and-white films 1930 multilingual films 1930s German films {{musical-comedy-film-stub