This film captures the spirit of a romantic age when Johann Strauss created some of the world’s favourite melodies. French actor Fernand Gravet plays Strauss with Luise Rainer as his wife Poldi. Soprano Miliza Korjus plays Carla Donner, the opera singer with whom Strauss was infatuated and for whom he wrote some of his greatest works including “Die Fledermaus”
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ACMI Identifier
302563
Language
English
Audience classification
G
Subject categories
Feature films → Feature films - United States
Music & Performing Arts → Orchestral music
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)