Comedy of the Heart

{{short description|1924 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox film | name = Comedy of the Heart | image = Comedy of the Heart.jpg | caption = | director = Rochus Gliese | producer = Erich Pommer | writer = {{ubl|Sophie Hoechstetter (novella ''Maskenball des Herzens'')|F. W. Murnau|Rochus Gliese}} | narrator = | starring = {{ubl|Lil Dagover|Nigel Barrie|Alexander Murski|Ruth Weyher}} | music = Giuseppe Becce | editing = | cinematography = Theodor Sparkuhl | studio = PAGU | distributor = Universum Film AG | released = {{Film date|1924|09|30|df=yes}} | runtime = | country = Germany | language = Silent <br> German intertitles | budget = | gross = }} '''''Comedy of the Heart''''' (German: '''''Komödie des Herzens''''') is a 1924 German silent romance film directed by Rochus Gliese and starring Lil Dagover, Nigel Barrie and Alexander Murski. It premiered at the Tauentzienpalast in Berlin on 30 September 1924.<ref>Hart p.230</ref> It was based on a novella by Sophie Hoechstetter. The film was one of UFA's major releases of the 1923-1925 boom period.<ref>Kreimeier121-122</ref> It was made at the Babelsberg Studio.

==Cast== * Lil Dagover as Gerda Werska * Nigel Barrie as Baron Vinzenz * Alexander Murski as Graf Inger auf Ingersholm * Ruth Weyher as Inge * Colette Brettel as Daisy * Victor Palfi as Jurgen * Ernst Winar as Knud * Hans Cürlis as Herr Fips, Hauslehrer * Lydia Potechina as Frau Ring * William Huch * Robert Leffler

==See also== * List of German films of 1924

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Hardt, Ursula. ''From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's life in the International Film Wars''. Berghahn Books, 1996. * Kreimeier, Klaus. ''The Ufa Story: A History of Germany's Greatest Film Company, 1918-1945''. University of California Press, 1999.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0015045}}

Category:1924 films Category:Films of the Weimar Republic Category:1924 romance films Category:German silent feature films Category:German romance films Category:Films directed by Rochus Gliese Category:Films based on short fiction Category:German black-and-white films Category:Films produced by Erich Pommer Category:Films with screenplays by F. W. Murnau Category:UFA GmbH films Category:Films shot at Babelsberg Studios Category:1924 German films Category:Films scored by Giuseppe Becce