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.
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
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Cast
Toralv Maurstad
Edvard Grieg
Florence Henderson
Nina Hagerup
Christina Schollin
Therese Berg
Frank Porretta
Richard Nordraak
Harry Secombe
Bioernstjerne Bjoernson
Robert Morley
Berg
Edward G. Robinson
Krogstad
Elizabeth Larner
Mrs. Bjoernson
Oskar Homolka
Engstrand
Frederick Jaeger
Henrik Ibsen
Henry Gilbert
Franz Liszt
Richard Wordsworth
Hans Christian Andersen
Bernard Archard
George Nordraak
John Barrie
Mr. Hagerup
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