''Mata Hari: The Red Dancer'' (german: Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin), often shortened on release to ''Mata Hari'', is a 1927

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silent

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directed by

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and starring Magda Sonja,

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and

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. It depicts the life and death of the German

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spy

Mata Hari Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod (née Zelle; 7 August 187615 October 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari (), was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. She was executed ...

. It was the first

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portrayal of Hari. It was shot at the Staaken Studios in

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with sets designed by Alfred Junge.

Cast

* Magda Sonja as Mata Hari *

as Erzherzog Oskar *

as Graf Bobrykin *

Mathias Wieman Mathias Wieman (Carl Heinrich Franz Mathias Wieman; 23 June 1902 – 3 December 1969) was a German stage-performer, silent-and-sound motion picture actor. Life and career Early life Wieman was born in Osnabrück, the only son of Carl Philipp A ...

as Grigori *

Emil Lind Emil Lind (1872–1948) was an Austrian actor. Selected filmography * '' The Story of Dida Ibsen'' (1918) * '' Die Arche'' (1919) * '' Prostitution'' (1919) * '' Humanity Unleashed'' (1920) * '' The Infernal Power'' (1922) * '' I.N.R.I.'' (1923) ...

as Defense lawyer *

Eduard Rothauser Eduard Rothauser (1876–1956) was an Austrian-born German actor. Selected filmography * '' The Man in the Cellar'' (1914) * '' The Princess of Urbino'' (1919) * '' Nobody Knows'' (1920) * ''The Graveyard of the Living'' (1921) * '' The Mahar ...

as Military Auditor *

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as Kosaken Unteroffizier *

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as Polizeihofrat * Elisabeth Bach as Mata Hari's Indische Dienerin * Dorothea Albu as Dancer *

Alexander Murski Alexander Alexandrovich Murski ( Russian: Александр Александрович Мурский) (1 November 1869 – April 1943) was a Saint Petersburg, Russian-born German actor. Murski died in 1943 in Toulouse, Midi-Pyrénées, Fra ...

* Hermann Wlach * Lewis Brody * Eberhard Leithoff * Georg Paeschke * Zlatan Kasherov * Carl Zickner * Nico Turoff * Georg Gartz

Bibliography

* Kelly, Andrew. ''Cinema and the Great War''. Routledge, 1997.

External links

* 1927 films 1920s spy drama films German silent feature films German spy drama films Films directed by Friedrich Feher Films set in Paris Films set in the 1910s Spy films based on actual events Films of the Weimar Republic World War I spy films Cultural depictions of Mata Hari Films shot at Staaken Studios National Film films German black-and-white films 1927 drama films Silent drama films Silent war films 1920s German films {{1920s-Germany-film-stub

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