Overview
Circus themed films usually provides a thrilling drama. The relatively obscure "Schatten der Manege" provides just what you'd expect. Doing the trapeze act angle, combining it with romance and jealousy for a darker plot, it has a lot of the right the ingredients. Does have moments where it spends too long of circus footage, which ruins some of the pacing, but otherwise a fine circus flick.
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Fritz FalkensteinScreenplay
- Paula BuschWriter
- Original title
- Schatten der Manege
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 20, 1931
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
Production
Cast
Liane HaidElvira Starke, Zirkusdirektrice
Trude BerlinerKitty Rallay
Karl Ludwig DiehlLuftakrobat
Walter RillaMorini. Kunstschütze
Rolf von GothFred Rallay
Valy ArnheimSprechstallmeister
Rudolf Meinhard-JüngerChef der Mordkommission
Oskar MarionOskar Haupt
Hermann PichaEduardo
Ellen Plessow
Georg H. Schnell1. Kriminalkommissar
Luigi BernauerRefaingesang
Hermann BlaßLilienfeldt, Argent
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