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The Circus of Life
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Wikipedia article
'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.Bock & Bergfelder p.90
The film's art direction was by Andrej Andrejew, Karl Grge 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
Bibliography
* Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. 'The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema'. Berghahn Books, 2009.
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