
18/08/1949
Begun in Austria in 1944/45, finished and released in 1949, this is a biography of the minor Austrian composer Carl Michael Ziehrer, who overcomes hypersensitivity in competitive situations which leads initially to failures in both career and romance.

Willi Forst
as Carl Michael Ziehrer

Dora Komar
as Mitzi

Judith Holzmeister
as Klara, seine Tochter

Hans Moser
as Engelbert

Curd Jürgens
as Graf Lechenberg

Anton Edthofer
as Hofrat Munk

Vera Schmid
as Liesl

Hilde Foeda
as Gretl, seine Tochter

Edmund Schellhammer
as Johann Strauß

Leopold Hainisch
as Karl Haslinger

Lizzi Holzschuh
as Mrs. Haslinger

Friedl Haerlin
as Mrs. Strauß

Hansi Stork
as Fürstin Pauline Metternich

Ferdinand Mayerhofer
as Ziehrer sen.

Hedwig Bleibtreu
as Lisi

Fred Liewehr
as John Cross

Alfred Neugebauer
as Exposition director

André Mattoni
as His secretary

Fritz Imhoff
as Paradeiser

Max Gülstorff
as Theatre director

Hilde Konetzni
as Singer of 'Die schönsten Mädeln leben in Wien'

Vienna Philharmonic
as Orchester

Peter Norman
as Singer (uncredited)
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