Farewell Waltz

Farewell Waltz — Plot

Warsaw 1831: The young music student Frédéric Chopin falls in love with the singer Constantia. When his professor learns that Polish revolutionaries want to persuade Chopin to take part in their uprising, he and Constantia hatch a plan to keep Chopin away from the revolution: Constantia pretends that she no longer loves him, so that Chopin accepts an offer to go to a concert in Paris. There, however, he meets the famous writer George Sand and falls in love with her.

• Release date
• October 2, 1934
• Runtime
• 91 min
• Genres
• Drama, Music, History
• Director
• Géza von Bolváry

Farewell Waltz — Cast

Wolfgang Liebeneiner Frédéric Chopin

R

Richard Romanowsky Professor Elsner Hanna Waag Constantia Gladkowska Julia Serda Madame Gladkowska Sybille Schmitz George Sand

H

Hans Schlenck Franz Liszt Gustav Waldau Friedrich Kalkbrenner

P

Paul Henckels Ignaz Pleyel