| The Dancer Barberina | |
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| German | Die Tänzerin Barberina |
| Directed by | Carl Boese |
| Written by | Adolf Paul |
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| Cinematography | Mutz Greenbaum |
Production company | Primus Film |
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| Country | Germany |
| Languages | Silent German intertitles |
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.[1] 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.
- ^ Hake, Sabine (1992). Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch. Princeton University Press. p. 47. ASIN B08K3SNKZF. ISBN 0691031975.