Operette (1940)
Music · Drama
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.
Cast
- 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