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