Alfred Hitchcock made a low-budget biographical film of Strauss in 1934 called "Waltzes from Vienna". After a trip to Vienna, Walt Disney was inspired to create four feature films. One of those was "The Waltz King", a loosely adapted biopic of Strauss, which aired as part of the Wonderful World of Disney in the U.S. in 1963. In Mikhail Bulgakov's 1940 (published 1967) novel, "The Master and Margarita", Strauss conducts the orchestra during Satan's Great Ball at the invitation of Behemoth.