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
