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1927 film

Doña Juana

Directed by	Paul Czinner
Written by	Tirso de Molina (play) Béla Balázs Paul Czinner
Produced by	Paul Czinner Elisabeth Bergner
Starring	Elisabeth Bergner Walter Rilla Hertha von Walther Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel
Cinematography	Karl Freund Robert Baberske Adolf Schlasy
Music by	Giuseppe Becce
Production company	Elisabeth Bergner Films
Distributed by	UFA
Release date	1927 (1927)
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

Doña Juana is a 1927 German silent comedy drama film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Elisabeth Bergner, Walter Rilla, and Hertha von Walther. It was based on a Spanish play by Tirso de Molina. The adaptation was done by Béla Balázs, who later tried to have his name removed from the credits because he disliked the finished version of the film. The film was shot on location around Seville and Granada in southern Spain.

Plot

The story is based on a traditional seventeenth century play about a nobleman who educates his daughter to be raised as a boy, leading to a series of confusions in her romantic life.

Cast

Elisabeth Bergner as Doña Juana
Walter Rilla as Don Ramon
Hertha von Walther as Doña Ines
Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel as Ines' Freundin Clara
Fritz Greiner as Ramons Freund Osorio
Hubert von Meyerinck as Dichter Don Alfonso
Wolfgang von Schwind as Juanas Diener Francesco
Max Schreck as Juanas Vater
Lotte Stein as Juanas Erzieherin Duena
Max Wogritsch as Don Felipe de Mendoza
Rafael Calvo as Don Pedro de Padilla

References

Kracauer p.158
Schmitt p.54
Congdon p.119

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael; Bergfelder, Tim, eds. (2009). The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-57181-655-9.
Congdon, Lee. Exile and Social Thought: Hungarian Intellectuals in Germany and Austria, 1919-1933. Princeton University Press, 2014.
Kracauer, Siegfried. From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film. Princeton University Press, 2019.
Schmitt, Gavin. Karl Freund: The Life and Films. McFarland, 2022.

External links

Doña Juana at IMDb

v t e The films of Paul Czinner
Victims of Passion (1922) Husbands or Lovers (1924) The Fiddler of Florence (1926) Love (1927) Doña Juana (1927) Fräulein Else (1929) The Way of Lost Souls (1929) The Loves of Ariane (1931) Ariane (1931) Ariane, jeune fille russe (1932) Dreaming Lips (1932) The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934) Escape Me Never (1935) As You Like It (1936) Dreaming Lips (1937) Stolen Life (1939)

The films of Paul Czinner

Victims of Passion (1922)
Husbands or Lovers (1924)
The Fiddler of Florence (1926)
Love (1927)
Doña Juana (1927)
Fräulein Else (1929)
The Way of Lost Souls (1929)
The Loves of Ariane (1931)
Ariane (1931)
Ariane, jeune fille russe (1932)
Dreaming Lips (1932)
The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
Escape Me Never (1935)
As You Like It (1936)
Dreaming Lips (1937)
Stolen Life (1939)

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