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

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