Operette
1940 · 1h 47m · 7.2
Music, Drama
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, Maria Holst, Dora Komar, Paul Hörbiger, Leo Slezak, Curd Jürgens, Gustav Waldau, Edmund Schellhammer, Siegfried Breuer, Theodor Danegger
opera, musician, sexual tension, vienna, austria, vienna opera, 19th century, mutual attraction, based on real person, stage director, biographical drama