The Dancer Barberina (1920)

Original title

Die Tänzerin Barberina

Directed by

Carl Boese

Genre

drama film, silent film, historical film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 49m

Rating

3.8 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This silent film shows the courtship between King Frederick the Great and dancer Barberina Campanini in 1700s Prussia. It follows their personal and political relationship against a royal backdrop.

historicaldramaticslowformalrestrainedstatelyromantic

What happens

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. 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 film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst Stern. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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