The Circus of Life (1926 film)

1926 film

The Circus of Life
Directed by	Mario Bonnard Guido Parish
Written by	Leo Birinsky Mario Bonnard
Produced by	Herman Millakowsky
Starring	Marcella Albani Vladimir Gajdarov Fritz Kampers
Cinematography	Mutz Greenbaum Theodor Sparkuhl
Production company	Greenbaum-Film
Distributed by	Parufamet
Release date	12 November 1926 (1926-11-12)
Country	Germany
Languages	Silent German intertitles

The Circus of Life (German: Die Flucht in den Zirkus) is a 1926 German silent film directed by Mario Bonnard and Guido Parish and starring Marcella Albani, Vladimir Gajdarov and Fritz Kampers. It was shot at the Staaken Studios in Berlin.The film's art direction was by Andrej Andrejew, Karl Görge 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".

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.

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
Guido Parish

References

^ "Cosy". Derby Daily Telegraph. 17 January 1928. Retrieved 29 December 2018 – via British Newspaper Archive.
Bock & Bergfelder p.90

Bibliography

Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.

External links

The Circus of Life at IMDb

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Films directed by Mario Bonnard

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