Gently My Songs Entreat | |
Director: | Willi Forst |
Producer: | Gregor Rabinovitch |
Starring: | Marta Eggerth Luise Ullrich Hans Jaray Hans Moser |
Music: | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
Cinematography: | Albert Benitz Franz Planer |
Editing: | Viktor Gertler |
Studio: | Cine-Allianz Tonfilm |
Runtime: | 85 minutes |
Country: | Austria Germany |
Language: | German |
Gently My Songs Entreat (German: ) is a 1933 Austrian-German musical film directed by Willi Forst and starring Marta Eggerth, Luise Ullrich and Hans Jaray. The film was shot at the Sievering Studios in Vienna with art direction by Julius von Borsody. The film is a biopic of the composer Franz Schubert (1797–1828).[1] It was Forst's directorial debut.[2] A British version was made called Unfinished Symphony. The German title refers to the first line of the Lied "Ständchen" (Serenade) from Schubert's collection Schwanengesang, "the most famous serenade in the world", which Eggerth performs in the film.