{{Short description|1920 film directed by Carl Boese}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox film |name = The Dancer Barberina |image = Die Tänzerin Barberina (1920) poster.jpg |caption = |native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Die Tänzerin Barberina}} |director = [[Carl Boese]] |writer = [[Adolf Paul]] |starring = {{ubl|[[Lyda Salmonova]]|[[Otto Gebühr]]|[[Harry Liedtke]]}} |cinematography = [[Mutz Greenbaum]] |studio = Primus Film |released = {{Film date|1920|4|2|df=yes}} |runtime = |country = Germany |language = Silent<br>German [[intertitle]]s }} '''''The Dancer Barberina''''' ({{langx|de|'''Die Tänzerin Barberina'''|link=no}}) is a 1920 German [[silent film|silent]] [[historical drama]] film directed by [[Carl Boese]] and starring [[Lyda Salmonova]], [[Otto Gebühr]], and [[Harry Liedtke]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hake|first=Sabine|title=Passions and Deceptions: The Early Films of Ernst Lubitsch|publisher=[[Princeton University Press]]|year=1992|page=47|isbn=0691031975}}</ref> Part of the group of [[Prussian film]]s of the [[Weimar Republic|Weimar]] and [[Nazi Germany|Nazi era]]s, it portrays the relationship between [[Frederick the Great]] and the dancer [[Barberina Campanini]] in eighteenth century [[Kingdom of Prussia|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]].

==Cast== *[[Lyda Salmonova]] as Tänzerin [[Barbara Campanini|Barberina Campanini]] *[[Otto Gebühr]] as [[Frederick the Great|Friedrich II]] *[[Harry Liedtke]] as dance teacher Fossano *[[Reinhold Schünzel]] as Prince von Carignan *[[Rosa Valetti]] as Frau Campanini *[[Julius Falkenstein]] as Argenson *[[Paul Hartmann (actor)|Paul Hartmann]] as Sohn von Lord Stuart *Giorgio de Giorgetti as King [[Louis XV]] of France *Paul Czimeg as Kammerdiener Friedr. Michaelis *Franz Groß as Bachelier, Kammerdiener *Grete Hollmann as Crichton's daughter *[[Ludwig Rex]] as Reeder Josuah Crichton *[[Max Ruhbeck]] as Lord Stuart *Emil Stammer

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0362259}}

{{Carl Boese}}

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