Begun in 1944/45, finished and released in 1949, this is a biography of the composer Carl Michael Ziehrer, who overcomes hypersensitivity in competitive situations which leads initially to failures in both career and romance.
Directed by Willi Forst
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Cast

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.
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