DIE TÄNZERIN BARBERINA

SUN, 29 AUG

6 PM Cinessage
7.30 PM Film

Introduction — Dr Philipp Stiasny will d scuss Frederick II in silent film

»The Dancer Barberina«  (Die Tänzerin Barberina) // DCP format | tinted | Germany | 1919/20 | 84 min | age 12+

Screen goddess Lyda Salmonova portrays the famous dancer Barbara Campanini (1721 – 1799). Her life is immortalised in cinema through baroque images: discovered and exploited by an Italian dancing master, she performed as a guest at the French court and in London, was abducted and taken to Venice, and finally ended up in King Frederick II’s royal ballet in Berlin. Her continental tour involved debauched affairs, which the film censors described as ‘voluptuous closeups of the crude’. But The Dancer Barberina (Die Tänzerin Barberina) still remained in the programme for adult audiences because of its overall effect. The film only survived as a Portuguese release copy, which still containes some of the censored scenes.
REGIE Carl Boese DARSTELLER*INNEN Lyda Salmonova | Otto Gebühr | Georg di Gioretti | Eine Veranstaltung in Kooperation mit der LANDESZENTRALE FÜR POLITISCHE BILDUNG THÜRINGEN.