The Dancer Barberina

The Dancer Barberina (German: Die Tänzerin Barberina) is a 1920 German silent historical drama film directed by Carl Boese and starring Lyda Salmonova, Otto Gebühr and Harry Liedtke.[1] Part of the group of Prussian films of the Weimar and Nazi eras, it portrays the relationship between Frederick the Great and the dancer Barberina Campanini in eighteenth century Prussia. Gebühr starred as Frederick in another film on the subject The Dancer of Sanssouci (1932).

The Dancer Barberina
Directed byCarl Boese
Written byAdolf Paul
StarringLyda Salmonova
Otto Gebühr
Harry Liedtke
CinematographyMutz Greenbaum
Production
company
Primus Film
Release date
2 April 1920
CountryGermany
LanguageSilent
German intertitles

The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst Stern.

Cast

gollark: ++remind 7979y end of end of time
gollark: ++remind 7978y end of time
gollark: ++magic py 7978 + 2021
gollark: It's greatly saddening to many of our users, I'm sure.
gollark: ABR had the same issue.

References

  1. Hake p.47

Bibliography

  • Hake, Sabine. Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch. Princeton University Press, 1992.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.