Dancing Vienna (German: Das tanzende Wien) is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Ben Lyon and Alfred Abel. A sound version was also prepared in 1928 by First National Pictures for release in the United States. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using both the sound-on-disc Vitaphone process. The film's art direction was by Andrej Andrejew, Ferdinand Bellan and Erich Kettelhut. It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin and on location in Vienna. It was one of several prototypes of the Heimatfilm made by Zelnik in the 1920s.[1] The film was intended as a loose sequel to Zelnik's The Blue Danube (1926).
| Dancing Vienna | |
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 Alfred Abel and Lya Mara in an advertising poster for the film. | |
| German | Das tanzende Wien |
| Directed by | Frederic Zelnik |
| Written by | Fanny Carlsen Willy Haas |
| Produced by | Frederic Zelnik |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Frederik Fuglsang |
| Music by | Willy Schmidt-Gentner |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | First National Pictures |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | Germany |
| Languages | Silent German Intertitles Sound (Synchronized) English Intertitles |
Cast
edit- Lya Mara as Komtesse Frizzi Zirsky
- Ben Lyon as Jonny Conzaga
- Alfred Abel as Dichter
- Eugen Burg as Kaiser Franz Josef
- Albert Paulig as Kaiser's adjutant
- Julius Falkenstein as Count Zirsky
- Gustav Charle as Konstantin, Zirsky's servant
- Arthur Kraußneck as Wirt vom 'Eisvogel'
- Kurt Gerron as Ein Feuerwehrmann
- Hermann Picha as Ein Musiker
- Hans Wassmann as Petrus
- Andreas van Horn as Johann Strauß
- Olga Engl as Gräfin Zirsky
- Arnold Korff as Carl Conzaga
- Georg Burghardt as Conzaga's secretary
- Gyula Szőreghy
References
edit- ^ Prawer, S. S. (2005). Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. Film Europa. Berghahn Books. p. 208. ISBN 1845453034. JSTOR j.ctt9qd8qp.
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