Top Cast
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Albert Bassermann
Thomas Bruck
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Michiko Tanaka
Namiko Sanada
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Elsa Bassermann
Hanna von Hooven
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Hans Járay
Walter
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Hans Homma
Direktor der Wiener Oper
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Fritz Imhoff
Wirt
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Oskar Karlweis
Teddy Langhammer
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Karl Paryla
Franz
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Etha von Storm
Susi Spangenberg
Overview
A middle aged composer returns to Vienna after ten years in America, falls in love with a Japanese student and writes his last opera for her.
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