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Congress Dances Blu-Ray

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Collection: Kino Lorber
Format: Blu-ray
Year: 1932
Director: Erik Charell
Genre: Musical
Cast: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Otto Wallburg, Conrad Veidt
Runtime: 99
Language: German
Release Date: 2023-02-07
Description

Made contemporaneously with the storybook operettas of Ernst Lubitsch (The Smiling Lieutenant) and Rouben Mamoulian (Love Me Tonight), Congress Dances shares a similar blend of risqué comedy, playful camerawork, inventive sound, and of course, romantic ballads. The luminous Lilian Harvey stars as a shopkeeper who promotes her wares by ambushing world leaders with floral bouquets. When she performs this stunt just before a gathering of world leaders in Vienna, she is thrust into the political and romantic entanglements of the crowned heads of Europe.
Audio commentary by film historian Eddy Von Mueller
English SDH subtitles