Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Paul Muni
as Professor Joseph Elsner
Merle Oberon
as George Sand
Cornel Wilde
as Frédéric Chopin
Nina Foch
as Constantia
George Coulouris
as Louis Pleyel
Howard Freeman
as Friedrich Kalkbrenner
Stephen Bekassy
as Franz Liszt
Sig Arno
as Henri Dupont (uncredited)
Dawn Bender
as Isabelle Chopin - Age 9 (uncredited)
David Bond
as Lackey (uncredited)
Walter Bonn
as Major Domo (uncredited)
Eugene Borden
as Duke of Orleans (uncredited)
