''Dancing Vienna'' (German: ''Das tanzende Wien'') is a 1927

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silent

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directed by

Frederic Zelnik Frederic Zelnik (born Friedrich Zelnik; 17 May 1885 – 29 November 1950) was an Austrian producer, director, and actor. He was one of the most important producers-directors of the German silent cinema. Zelnik achieved success through period oper ...

and starring

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and

Alfred Abel Alfred Peter Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937) was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang' ...

. A sound version was also prepared in 1928 by

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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

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process. The film's

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was by

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, Ferdinand Bellan and

Erich Kettelhut Erich Karl Heinrich Kettelhut (1 November 1893 – 13 March 1979) was a German production designer, art director and set decorator. Kettelhut is considered one of the most important artists in the history of early German cinema, mainly for his s ...

. It was shot at the

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and on location in

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. It was one of several prototypes of the

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made by Zelnik in the 1920s. The film was intended as a loose sequel to Zelnik's ''

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'' (1926).

Cast

as Komtesse Frizzi Zirsky *

as Jonny Conzaga *

as Dichter *

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as Kaiser Franz Josef *

Albert Paulig Albert Paulig (14 January 1873 – 19 March 1933) was a German film actor who was popular during the silent era. Paulig made his first film in 1914. The following year he appeared in one of Ernst Lubitsch's first directorial attempts, '' A Trip on ...

as Kaiser's adjutant *

Julius Falkenstein Julius Falkenstein (25 February 1879 – 9 December 1933) was a German stage and film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1914 and 1933. Falkenstein was Jewish, but secured a special permit to continue making ...

as Count Zirsky *Gustav Charle as Konstantin, Zirsky's servant *

Arthur Kraußneck Arthur Kraußneck (born Arthur Carl Gustav Müller; 1856–1941) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * '' The Doomed'' (1924) * '' My Leopold'' (1924) * '' Chronicles of the Gray Ho ...

as Wirt vom 'Eisvogel' *

Kurt Gerron Kurt Gerron (born Kurt Gerson; 11 May 1897 – 30 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He had a very successful career in cabaret and film before World War II, but was then forbidden to work and was sent to Theresienstadt ...

as Ein Feuerwehrmann *

Hermann Picha Hermann Picha (20 March 1865 – 7 June 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Picha was extremely prolific, appearing in over 300 short and feature films during the silent and early sound eras. Picha played a mixture of lead and supporting ...

as Ein Musiker *

Hans Wassmann Hans Wassmann (1 January 1873 – 5 April 1932) was a German film actor.Chandler p.271 Selected filmography * '' Laugh Bajazzo'' (1915) * '' Miss Venus'' (1921) * '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922) * '' A Glass of Water'' (1923) * '' Nanon'' (1924 ...

as Petrus *Andreas van Horn as Johann Strauß *

Olga Engl Olga Engl (30 May 1871 – 21 September 1946) was an Austrian-German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films. Biography Engl was privately educated in an Ursuline monastery and began her acting career at the Prague C ...

as Gräfin Zirsky *

Arnold Korff Arnold Peter Kirsch-Korff (2 August 1870 – 2 June 1944) was an Austrian-born American Hollywood actor and director. He appeared in a number of German and Austrian films before moving to the United States and resuming his career in America. He m ...

as Carl Conzaga *Georg Burghardt as Conzaga's secretary *

Gyula Szőreghy Gyula Szőreghy (30 November 1887 – 22 December 1942) was a Hungarian film actor. Szőreghy was born in Algyo, Austria-Hungary (now, Hungary) and died in 1942 in Budapest. He was also credited as Julius von Szöreghy. Selected filmography * ...

References

External links

* German historical comedy films 1920s historical comedy films Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films Films directed by Frederic Zelnik Films set in Vienna Films set in the 1890s German black-and-white films 1920s German films Films shot in Vienna Films shot at Staaken Studios 1927 films 1920s German-language films 1927 comedy films Films scored by Willy Schmidt-Gentner Synchronized sound films {{1920s-Germany-silent-comedy-film-stub