Prof. Joseph Elsner guides his protégé Frydryk Chopin through his formative years to early adulthood in Poland. The professor takes him to Paris, where he eventually comes under the wing and influence of novelist George Sand and rises to prominence in the music world, to the exclusion of his old friends and patriotic feelings towards Poland.
Paul Muni
Merle Oberon
Cornel Wilde
Nina Foch
George Coulouris
Howard Freeman
Stephen Bekassy
Sig Arno
Dawn Bender
David Bond
Walter Bonn
Eugene Borden
William Challee
Paul Conrad
Gino Corrado
Peter Cusanelli
Norma Drury
Claire Du Brey
Earl Easton
Fern Emmett
Franklyn Farnum
Gregory Gaye
John George
Fay Helm
Stuart Holmes
Zoia Karabanova
Charles La Torre
Al Luttringer
George Macready
Darren McGavin
Sybil Merritt
William H. O'Brien
Frank O'Connor
Alfred Paix
Frank Puglia
William Richardson
Roxy Roth
Cosmo Sardo
Henry Sharp
Maurice Tauzin
Victor Travis
Ivan Triesault
Dorothy Vernon
Michael Visaroff
Lucy Von Boden
Charles Wagenheim
Eric Wilton
Ian Wolfe