Dancing Vienna (German: Das tanzende Wien) is a 1927 German silent and synchronized sound comedy film directed by Frederic Zelnik and starring Ben Lyon, Lya Mara and Alfred Abel. The film was produced by Defu Company of Berlin, an American production unit associated with First National Pictures, Inc. A sound version was also prepared in 1928 by First National Pictures for release in the United States and this version was the one was seen by most audiences. This sound version went into general release on January 13, 1929. While the sound version has no audible dialog, it featured a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the sound-on-disc Vitaphone process.

Plot

In romantic old Vienna, a gentle poet (Alfred Abel) stumbles upon a charming scene in the park: a young woman fiercely protecting a stray dog from a cruel street boy. This girl is Komtesse Fritzi Zirsky (Lya Mara), the orphaned daughter of the noble Count Oscar Zirsky and Mizzi, a once-celebrated cabaret singer. Their marriage had scandalized Viennese society and was never accepted by Oscar’s stern and tradition-bound parents, Count Zirsky (Julius Falkenstein) and Gräfin Zirsky (Olga Engl), with whom Fritzi now lives in a once-grand house fallen into genteel poverty.