The Sound of Music
1965 · Drama · Family
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Film / 1944
Philharmonic
Directed by
Paul Verhoeven
Alexander Schonath is an exceptionally gifted musician who plays first violin in a philharmonic orchestra. But when the orchestra runs into financial difficulties, Alexander is the first to leave and join a dance band – the other musicians, especially his father, see him as a "deserter." In Alexander's absence, his younger, perpetually sickly brother Hans makes a career in the philharmonic and becomes engaged to Maria, the daughter of the orchestra's chairman, Herbert Hartwig.
The story
Alexander Schonath is an exceptionally gifted musician who plays first violin in a philharmonic orchestra. But when the orchestra runs into financial difficulties, Alexander is the first to leave and join a dance band – the other musicians, especially his father, see him as a "deserter." In Alexander's absence, his younger, perpetually sickly brother Hans makes a career in the philharmonic and becomes engaged to Maria, the daughter of the orchestra's chairman, Herbert Hartwig.
Cast
Eugen KlöpferVater Schonath
Will QuadfliegAlexander Schonath
Irene von MeyendorffMaria Hartwig
Erich PontoOrchesterdiener Straehle
Kirsten HeibergHeddy Lindt
Elisabeth FlickenschildtKonzertagentin Fuchs
O.E. HasseKonzertagent Urdoi
Franz SchafheitlinMinisterialrat
Erika von ThellmannFrau Brettschneider
Theodor LoosHerbert Hartwig
Malte JaegerHans Schonath
Erich FiedlerSchneemann
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Angelo Ferrari
Ernst Pittschau
Paul RehkopfMack
Eduard von WintersteinArzt
Paul VerhoevenGrode
Curt AckermannDirektor der Rio-Bar
Jeanette BethgeBertha, Dienstmädchen
Oscar SaboSchulz
Karl EtlingerWeidner
Herbert GernotUllmann
Walter Klam
Ruth Buchardt
Alfred Stein
Horst Winter
Werner Kurz
André Saint-Germain
Bill Bocket
Karl Rathgeb
Charles Francois
Eugen Jochum
Karl Böhm
Hans Knappertsbusch
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