Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe, Oskar Homolka, Edward G. Robinson and Frank Porretta (as Rikard Nordraak). Filmed in Super Panavision 70 by Davis Boulton and presented in single-camera Cinerama in some countries, it was an attempt to capitalise on the success of The Sound of Music.
Toralv Maurstad
as Edvard Grieg
Florence Henderson
as Nina Hagerup
Christina Schollin
as Therese Berg
Frank Porretta
as Richard Nordraak
Harry Secombe
as Bioernstjerne Bjoernson
Robert Morley
as Berg
Edward G. Robinson
as Krogstad
Elizabeth Larner
as Mrs. Bjoernson
Oskar Homolka
as Engstrand
Frederick Jaeger
as Henrik Ibsen
Henry Gilbert
as Franz Liszt
Richard Wordsworth
as Hans Christian Andersen
