Dancing Vienna

Dancing Vienna
Alfred Abel and Lya Mara in an advertising poster for the film.
GermanDas tanzende Wien
Directed byFrederic Zelnik
Written byFanny Carlsen
Willy Haas
Produced byFrederic Zelnik
Starring
CinematographyFrederik Fuglsang
Music byWilly Schmidt-Gentner
Production
company
Distributed byFirst National Pictures
Release date
  • 1 October 1927 (1927-10-01)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguagesSilent
German Intertitles
Sound (Synchronized)
English Intertitles

Dancing Vienna (German: Das tanzende Wien) is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Lya Mara, Ben Lyon and Alfred Abel. A sound version was also prepared in 1928 by First National Pictures 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 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.[1] The film was intended as a loose sequel to Zelnik's The Blue Danube (1926).

  1. ^ Prawer, S. S. (2005). Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. Film Europa. Berghahn Books. p. 208. ISBN 1845453034. JSTOR j.ctt9qd8qp.