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.

• Columbia Pictures
• Paul Muni
• Merle Oberon
• Cornel Wilde
• Nina Foch
• George Coulouris
• Howard Freeman
• Stephen Bekassy
• Sig Arno