Michael
2026 · Music · Drama
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Film / 1949
Viennese Girls
Directed by
Willi Forst
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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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.
Cast
Willi ForstCarl Michael Ziehrer
Dora KomarMitzi
Judith HolzmeisterKlara, seine Tochter
Hans MoserEngelbert
Curd JürgensGraf Lechenberg
Anton EdthoferHofrat Munk
Vera SchmidLiesl
Hilde FoedaGretl, seine Tochter
Edmund SchellhammerJohann Strauß
Leopold HainischKarl Haslinger
Lizzi HolzschuhMrs. Haslinger
Friedl HaerlinMrs. Strauß
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Hansi StorkFürstin Pauline Metternich
Ferdinand MayerhoferZiehrer sen.
Hedwig BleibtreuLisi
Fred LiewehrJohn Cross
Alfred NeugebauerExposition director
André MattoniHis secretary
Fritz ImhoffParadeiser
Max GülstorffTheatre director
Hilde KonetzniSinger of 'Die schönsten Mädeln leben in Wien'
Vienna PhilharmonicOrchester
Peter NormanSinger (uncredited)
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