The Circus of Life (1926 film)
1926 film
- Mario Bonnard
- Guido Parish
- Leo Birinsky
- Mario Bonnard
- Marcella Albani
- Vladimir Gajdarov
- Fritz Kampers
- Mutz Greenbaum
- Theodor Sparkuhl
Production
company
company
Greenbaum-Film
Release date
- 12 November 1926 (1926-11-12)
- 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,[1] Vladimir Gajdarov and Fritz Kampers.[2] 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".[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
- Guido Parish
References
- ^ a b c "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
- The Betrothed (1923)
- The Circus of Life (1926)
- The Golden Abyss (1927)
- The Sinner (1928)
- Theatre (1928)
- Struggle for the Matterhorn (1928)
- Call at Midnight (1929)
- The Call of the North (1929)
- The Son of the White Mountain (1930)
- Five to Nil (1932)
- No Women (1932)
- Three Lucky Fools (1933)
- The Missing Treaty (1933)
- The Wedding March (1934)
- Territorial Militia (1935)
- Adam's Tree (1936)
- Thirty Seconds of Love (1936)
- The Ferocious Saladin (1937)
- The Count of Brechard (1938)
- I, His Father (1939)
- Frenzy (1939)
- Father for a Night (1939)
- The King's Jester (1941)
- Marco Visconti (1941)
- Before the Postman (1942)
- Rossini (1942)
- The Peddler and the Lady (1943)
- Romulus and the Sabines (1945)
- What a Distinguished Family (1945)
- Farewell, My Beautiful Naples (1946)
- City of Pain (1948)
- Margaret of Cortona (1950)
- The Vow (1950)
- Stasera sciopero (1951)
- The Last Sentence (1951)
- Torment of the Past (1952)
- I figli non si vendono (1952)
- Frine, Courtesan of Orient (1953)
- Concert of Intrigue (1954)
- They Stole a Tram (1954)
- La ladra (1955)
- Allow Me, Daddy! (1956)
- Slave Women of Corinth (1958)
- The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)
- Gastone (1960)
- Rome 1585 (1961)
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