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 Alfred Junge.

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

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