Doña Juana is a 1927 German silent comedy drama film directed by Paul Czinner and starring Elisabeth Bergner, Walter Rilla, and Hertha von Walther.Kracauer p.158 It was based on a Spanish play by Tirso de Molina.Schmitt p.54 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.Congdon p.119 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.
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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.
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