''Doña Juana'' is a 1927 German silent

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directed by

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and starring

Elisabeth Bergner Elisabeth Bergner (22 August 1897 – 12 May 1986) was an Austrian-British actress. Primarily a stage actress, her career flourished in Berlin and Paris before she moved to London to work in films. Her signature role was Gemma Jones in '' Esca ...

Walter Rilla Walter Rilla (22 August 1894 – 21 November 1980) was a German film actor of Jewish descent. Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), pg. 213 He app ...

, and

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. It was based on a Spanish play by

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. The adaptation was done by

Béla Balázs Béla Balázs (; 4 August 1884 – 17 May 1949), born Herbert Béla Bauer, was a Hungarian film critic, aesthetician, writer and poet of Jewish heritage. He was a proponent of formalist film theory. Career Balázs was the son of Simon Bauer a ...

, who later tried to have his name removed from the credits because he disliked the finished version of the film.Congdon p.119 The film was shot on location around

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and

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in southern

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Plot

The story is based on a traditional seventeenth century play about a

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who educates his daughter to be raised as a boy, leading to a series of confusions in her romantic life.

Cast

References

Bibliography

* * 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

* 1927 films 1920s historical comedy-drama films German historical comedy-drama films German silent feature films Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Paul Czinner German films based on plays Films with screenplays by Paul Czinner Films set in Spain Films set in the 17th century Films shot in Spain UFA GmbH films German black-and-white films 1927 comedy-drama films 1920s German films 1920s German-language films Films scored by Giuseppe Becce {{1920s-Germany-silent-comedy-film-stub