''Paganini in Venice'' () is a 1929 German short

historical film A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in the past, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents historical events and characters with varying degrees of fiction such as ...

directed by Frank Clifford and starring

Andreas Weißgerber Andreas Weißgerber (10 January 1900 – 26 December 1941), also known as Chanosch Ben Mosche Weißgerber, was an Austrian-Hungarian violinist. Life Weissgerber came from a Jewish family with roots in Sagadora near Czernowitz in Bukovina; ...

Hans Hermann Schaufuß Hans Hermann Schaufuß (13 July 1893 – 30 January 1982) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1922 to 1969. His sons were actors Hans Joachim Schaufuß and Peter-Timm Schaufuß. Selected filmography References ...

, and

Ágnes Esterházy Ágnes Esterházy (born Ágnes Jósika de Branyitska, 15 January 1891 – 4 April 1956) was a Hungarian film actress who worked mainly in Austria and Germany. She appeared in 32 films between 1918 and 1943. Biography Ágnes Esterházy was ...

. It was made by the newly formed

Tobis Film Tobis Film was a German film production and film distribution company. Founded in the late 1920s as a merger of several companies involved in the switch from silent film, silent to sound films, the organisation emerged as a leading German sound s ...

during the switch from silent to

sound film A sound film is a Film, motion picture with synchronization, synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, bu ...

. The film's sets were designed by the

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Erich Czerwonski Erich Czerwonski (1889–1940) was a German art director.Kreimeier p.73 He designed the sets for around a hundred productions during his career. He died in 1940 after being struck by a train during a blackout. Filmography * '' The Black Panther ...

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* 1929 films Films of the Weimar Republic German drama short films German historical films 1920s historical films Films about classical music and musicians Biographical films about musicians Films set in the 19th century German black-and-white films Films about violins and violinists Cultural depictions of Niccolò Paganini Tobis Film films 1920s German films Films scored by Werner R. Heymann {{historic-film-stub