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Status
Released
Release
1949
Runtime
1h 53m
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.
23 Cast Members
Willi Forst
Carl Michael Ziehrer
Dora Komar
Mitzi
Judith Holzmeister
Klara, seine Tochter
Hans Moser
Engelbert
Curd Jürgens
Graf Lechenberg
Anton Edthofer
Hofrat Munk
Vera Schmid
Liesl
Hilde Foeda
Gretl, seine Tochter
Edmund Schellhammer
Johann Strauß
Leopold Hainisch
Karl Haslinger
Lizzi Holzschuh
Mrs. Haslinger
Friedl Haerlin
Mrs. Strauß
Hansi Stork
Fürstin Pauline Metternich
Ferdinand Mayerhofer
Ziehrer sen.
Hedwig Bleibtreu
Lisi
Fred Liewehr
John Cross
Alfred Neugebauer
Exposition director
André Mattoni
His secretary
Fritz Imhoff
Paradeiser
Max Gülstorff
Theatre director
