Viennese Girls

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Viennese Girls

1949

1h 53m

7.3(3 votes)

Drama

Music

Overview

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.

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10 featured cast members

Starring

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

Creative team

Directed by: Willi Forst
Written by: Willi Forst
Franz Gribitz
Produced by: Willi Forst

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