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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.
Original Release
09/29/1931
US Release
04/25/1932
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Lilian Harvey | Christel Weinzinger, Gloves-seller / Christel Weinzinger |
| Willy Fritsch | Czar Alexander of Russia / Uralsky / Zar Alexander von Russland |
| Otto Wallburg | Bibikoff, his Adjutant / Bibikoff, sein Adjutant |
| Conrad Veidt | Prince Metternich / Fürst Metternich |
| Carl-Heinz Schroth | Pepi, his Secretary / Pepi, sein Sekretär |
| Lil Dagover | The Countess / Komtesse |
| Adele Sandrock | The Princess / Fürstin |
| Margarete Kupfer | The Countess / Gräfin |
| Julius Falkenstein | The Minister of Finance / Finanzminister |
| Max Gülstorff | The Bürgermeister / Bürgermeister von Wien |
Directors
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Lilian Harvey | Christel Weinzinger, Gloves-seller / Christel Weinzinger |
| Willy Fritsch | Czar Alexander of Russia / Uralsky / Zar Alexander von Russland |
| Otto Wallburg | Bibikoff, his Adjutant / Bibikoff, sein Adjutant |
| Conrad Veidt | Prince Metternich / Fürst Metternich |
| Carl-Heinz Schroth | Pepi, his Secretary / Pepi, sein Sekretär |
| Lil Dagover | The Countess / Komtesse |
| Adele Sandrock | The Princess / Fürstin |
| Margarete Kupfer | The Countess / Gräfin |
| Julius Falkenstein | The Minister of Finance / Finanzminister |
| Max Gülstorff | The Bürgermeister / Bürgermeister von Wien |
| Paul Hörbiger | Heurigen Singer / Heurigensänger |
| Boris Romanoff | Dancer |
| Alfred Abel | König von Sachsen / King of Saxony |
| Alfred Gerasch | The French Envoy / Französischer Gesandter |
| Eugen Rex | The Saxon Envoy / Sächsischer Gesandter |
| Sergius Sax | Russischer diener |
| Ernst Stahl-Nachbaur | Napoleon I. / Napoleon |
| Franz Nicklisch |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Eberhard Klagemann | Executive Producer |
| Erich Pommer | Producer |
