Doña Juana is a 1927 German silent comedy drama film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Elisabeth Bergner, Walter Rilla, and Hertha von Walther.[1] It was based on a Spanish play by Tirso de Molina.[2] 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.[3] The film was shot on location around Seville and Granada in southern Spain.
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| Directed by | Paul Czinner |
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| Music by | Giuseppe Becce |
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| Distributed by | UFA |
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| Country | Germany |
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Plot
editThe 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
edit- 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
editBibliography
edit- 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
edit- Doña Juana at IMDb
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