A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic opera manager end in abrupt firing in spite of a mutual attraction. He's quickly engaged by another theatre and becomes famous for his lavish stage productions and fine acting, which begins their golden age with Suppé and Strauss.
Willi Forst
as Franz Jauner
Maria Holst
as Marie Geistinger
Dora Komar
as Emmi Krall, Jauners Ehefrau
Paul Hörbiger
as Alexander Girardi
Leo Slezak
as Franz von Suppé
Curd Jürgens
as Karl Millöcker
Gustav Waldau
as Ferdinand
Edmund Schellhammer
as Johann Strauß
Siegfried Breuer
as Fürst Hohenburg
Theodor Danegger
as Tundler
Trude Marlen
as Antonie Link
Viktor Heim
as Hans Makart
