The Circus of Life
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| Produced by | Herman Millakowsky |
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Production company | Greenbaum-Film |
| Distributed by | Parufamet |
Release date | 12 November 1926 |
| Country | Germany |
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The Circus of Life (German: Die Flucht in den Zirkus) is a 1926 German silent film directed by Mario Bonnard and and starring Marcella Albani,[1] Vladimir Gajdarov and Fritz Kampers.[2]
The film's art direction was by Andrej Andrejew, and August Rinaldi.
The film was screened in the United Kingdom in 1928, with a reviewer for the Derby Daily Telegraph calling it "one of the best Russian films seen for some time".[1]
Plot[]
A young nobleman marries a poor peasant girl, who is falsely accused of murder and transported to Siberia. She eventually escapes with her lover.[1]
Cast[]
- Marcella Albani as Mistress Wera
- Vladimir Gajdarov as Officer Wladimir Bobrikoff
- Fritz Kampers as Iwanoff - Anarchist
- Henry Bender
- Eugen Burg
- William Dieterle as Cossack
- Olga Engl as Mother of Wladimir
- Karl Harbacher
- Leopold von Ledebur
- Hans Mierendorff
- Hermann Picha
- Louis Ralph as Boris - Anarchist
- Frida Richard
- Gerhard Ritterband
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
External links[]
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Categories:
- 1926 films
- German films
- Films of the Weimar Republic
- Films directed by Mario Bonnard
- German silent feature films
- Films set in Russia
- German black-and-white films
- UFA GmbH films
- Silent German film stubs