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Operette
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Willi Forst Director
- 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
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