Dancing Vienna (1927)

Original title

Das tanzende Wien

Directed by

Frederic Zelnik

Genre

silent film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 48m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A romantic comedy set in Vienna, following characters caught up in love and music. It was produced as a silent film with a later synchronized sound version adding a musical score and effects.

lightheartedromanticnostalgicmusicalbreezywhimsicalmelodicsentimental

What happens

Dancing Vienna (German: Das tanzende Wien) is a 1927 German silent and synchronized sound comedy film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Ben Lyon, Lya Mara and Alfred Abel. The film was produced by Defu Company of Berlin, an American production unit associated with First National Pictures, Inc. A sound version was also prepared in 1928 by First National Pictures for release in the United States and this version was the one was seen by most audiences. This sound version went into general release on January 13, 1929. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using 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. The film was intended as a loose sequel to Zelnik's The Blue Danube (1926). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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