Drama Music History
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.
Directed by
Willi Forst
Written by
Willi Forst, Franz Gribitz
Max Gülstorff
Theatre director
Curd Jürgens
Graf Lechenberg
Hans Moser
Engelbert
Lizzi Holzschuh
Mrs. Haslinger
Judith Holzmeister
Klara, seine Tochter
André Mattoni
His secretary
Willi Forst
Carl Michael Ziehrer
Hedwig Bleibtreu
Lisi
Fritz Imhoff
Paradeiser
Alfred Neugebauer
Exposition director
Anton Edthofer
Hofrat Munk
Fred Liewehr
John Cross
Dora Komar
Mitzi
Vera Schmid
Liesl
Hilde Foeda
Gretl, seine Tochter
Edmund Schellhammer
Johann Strauß
Friedl Haerlin
Mrs. Strauß
Hansi Stork
Fürstin Pauline Metternich
Ferdinand Mayerhofer
Ziehrer sen.
Hilde Konetzni
Singer of 'Die schönsten Mädeln leben in Wien'
Wiener Philharmoniker
Orchester
Peter Norman
Singer (uncredited)

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