Gently My Songs Entreat (German: Leise flehen meine Lieder) 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). It was Forst's directorial debut. 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.
Cast
Marta Eggerth as Countess Eszterhazy
Luise Ullrich as Emmi Passenter
Hans Jaray as Franz Schubert
Hans Moser as pawnbroker Passenter
Otto Treßler as Count Esterhazy
Hans Olden as Hüttenbrener
Raoul Aslan as Salieri
Blanka Glossy as Schubert's landlady
Anna Kallina as Countess Kinsky
Paul Wagner as Lieutenant Folliot
Gucki Wippel as Maria
Ernst Arndt
Karl Forest