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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. 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.
Cast
Lyda Salmonova as Tänzerin Barberina Campanini
Otto Gebühr as 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 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
External links
The Dancer Barberina at IMDb