Mata Hari (1927 film)

Mata Hari
American release poster
Directed by	Friedrich Feher
Written by	Leo Birinsky
Starring	Magda Sonja Wolfgang Zilzer Fritz Kortner
Cinematography	Leopold Kutzleb
Music by	Willy Schmidt-Gentner
Production company	National Film
Distributed by	National Film
Release date	2 May 1927 (1927-05-02)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

Mata Hari: The Red Dancer (German: Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Friedrich Feher and starring Magda Sonja, Wolfgang Zilzer and Fritz Kortner. It depicts the life and death of the German World War I spy Mata Hari. It was the first feature-length portrayal of Hari. It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin with sets designed by the art director Alfred Junge.

Synopsis

Before the First World War the Dutch dancer Mata Hari is the lover of a Russian Grand Duke, but throws him over for a young peasant named Grigori. He has Grirgori arrested and then uses his prisoner as a bargaining chip to blackmail Mata Hari into becoming a spy. Started on her now famous course, she is eventually captured and sentenced to death for espionage.

Cast

• Magda Sonja as Mata Hari
• Wolfgang Zilzer as Erzherzog Oskar
• Fritz Kortner as Graf Bobrykin
• Mathias Wieman as Grigori
• Emil Lind as Defense lawyer
• Eduard Rothauser as Military Auditor
• Max Maximilian as Kosaken Unteroffizier
• Leo Connard as Polizeihofrat
• Elisabeth Bach as Mata Hari's Indische Dienerin
• Dorothea Albu as Dancer
• Alexander Murski
• Hermann Wlach
• Lewis Brody
• Eberhard Leithoff
• Georg Paeschke
• Zlatan Kasherov
• Carl Zickner
• Nico Turoff
• Georg Gartz

See also

• Mata Hari (1931)
• Mata Hari, Agent H21 (1964)
• Mata Hari (1985)

Bibliography

• Kelly, Andrew. Cinema and the Great War. Routledge, 1997.

External links

• Mata Hari at IMDb