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Film / 1953
Franz Schubert – Ein Leben in zwei Sätzen
Directed by
Walter Kolm-Veltée
Franz Schubert toils by day as his father’s clerk while secretly composing in Beethoven’s shadow, gaining little recognition until friends persuade publisher Diabelli to host a public performance where he meets and falls for soprano Therese Grob. Abandoning a teaching career, he moves in with artist and poet friends, finds inspiration for the “Erlkönig,” and together with Therese sustains himself by performing his songs.
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Franz Schubert toils by day as his father’s clerk while secretly composing in Beethoven’s shadow, gaining little recognition until friends persuade publisher Diabelli to host a public performance where he meets and falls for soprano Therese Grob. Abandoning a teaching career, he moves in with artist and poet friends, finds inspiration for the “Erlkönig,” and together with Therese sustains himself by performing his songs.
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Cast
Heinrich SchweigerFranz Schubert
Aglaja SchmidTherese Grob
Hans ThimigVater Schubert
Rolf WankaFranz Schober
Fritz ImhoffSchmiedermeister
Carl BosseHeinrich Grob, Vater
Chariklia BaxevanosJunges Mädchen
Franz PfaudlerDiabelli
Maria EisMadame Schechner
Louis SoldanMoritz von Schwind (as Luis Soldan)
Michael JanischBergmann
Anni KorinNetty
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Erwin StrahlJohann Mayerhofer
Karl MittnerFerdinand Schubert
Fritz Hinz-FabriciusHofopernsänger Vogl (as Hinz Fabricius)
Senta Wengraf
Fred HenningsSchindler
Otto Treßler
Alma Seidler
Susanne Engelhart
Richard EybnerHoftheatersekretär
Karl Ehmann(uncredited)
Marianne Gerzner(uncredited)
Hugo GottschlichBit part (uncredited)
Franz Herterich(uncredited)
Fritz MuliarBit part (uncredited)
Gisa Wurm(uncredited)
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