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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The people behind it
Albert Bassermann
Thomas Bruck
Michiko Tanaka
Namiko Sanada
Elsa Bassermann
Hanna von Hooven
Hans Járay
Walter
Hans Homma
Direktor der Wiener Oper
Fritz Imhoff
Wirt
Oskar Karlweis
Teddy Langhammer
Karl Paryla
Franz
Etha von Storm
Susi Spangenberg
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