Variety (1925)
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- 1h 44min
- Crime, Drama
- 27 Jan 1926 (Hungary)
- Movie
Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But...
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Cast
| Emil Jannings | ... |
Boss Huller
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| Maly Delschaft | ... |
Frau Huller
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| Lya De Putti | ... |
Bertha-Marie
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| Warwick Ward | ... |
Artinelli
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| Alice Hechy |
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| Georg John | ... |
Seeman
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| Kurt Gerron | ... |
Hafenarbeiter
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Paul Rehkopf | ... |
Zuschauer auf dem Jahrmarkt
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Charles Lincoln | ... |
Spanischer Artist
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Georg Baselt |
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| Trude Hesterberg | ... |
Zuschauerin imm Varieté
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| Werner Krauss | ... |
(unconfirmed)
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The Flying Codonas | ... |
Acrobatic Ensemble
(as Die Drei Codonas)
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Alex Hyde and his Original New York Jazz Orchestra | ... |
Alex Hyde and His Original New York Jazz Orchestra
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Enrico Rastelli | ... |
Jongleur
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| Gerhard Bienert |
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Etelka Maquita | ... |
Dancer
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Directed by
| Ewald André Dupont | ... | (as E.A. Dupont) |
Written by
| Felix Hollaender | ... | (novel: Der Eid des Stephan Huller) (as Felix Holländer) |
| Ewald André Dupont | ... | (written by) (as E.A. Dupont) |
Produced by
| Erich Pommer | ... | producer |
Music by
| Stephen Horne | ||
| Erno Rapee | ||
Cinematography by
| Karl Freund | ||
| Carl Hoffmann | ||
Art Direction by
| Alfred Junge | ||
| Oscar Friedrich Werndorff | ... | (as O.F. Werndorff) |
Special Effects by
| Ernst Kunstmann | ... | special effects |
Visual Effects by
| Eugen Schüfftan | ... | trick photography |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Universum Film (UFA) (1925) (Germany) (theatrical)
- Universum Film (UFA) (1926) (Austria) (theatrical)
- Wardour Films (1926) (United Kingdom) (theatrical)
- Paramount Pictures (1926) (United States) (theatrical)
- Ufa (1926) (Sweden) (theatrical)
- Grapevine Video (2004) (United States) (VHS)
- Grapevine Video (2009) (United States) (DVD) (dvdr)
- Grapevine Video (2010) (United States) (DVD)
- NFP Distribution (2015) (Germany) (Blu-ray)
- NFP Distribution (2015) (Germany) (DVD)
- Eureka Entertainment (2017) (United Kingdom) (Blu-ray)
- Eureka Entertainment (2017) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- Kino Lorber (2017) (United States) (Blu-ray)
- Masters of Cinema (2017) (United Kingdom) (Blu-ray)
- Masters of Cinema (2017) (United Kingdom) (DVD)
- The Criterion Channel (2020) (United States) (tv) (digital)
- ARTE Mediathek (2023) (Germany) (video) (VoD)
- ARTE Mediathek (2023) (France) (video) (VoD)
- ARTE (2023) (Germany) (tv)
- ARTE (2023) (France) (tv)
Special Effects
Other Companies
- Motion Picture Producers and Distributors Association of America (acknowledgement)
- Studio Babelsberg (sound stages)
Storyline
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Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he longs for his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son behind. He makes Berta-Marie his partner in a new trapeze number. One day, the famous trapeze artist Artinelli takes note of them and engages them for his trapeze show in Berlin. Their salto mortale becomes an immediate sensation. Calculatedly and cold, Artinelli seduces Berta-Marie and destroys "Boss'" happiness.
Written by Christian Taube |
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Did You Know?
| Trivia | American humorist S. J. Perelman was so taken with this movie he wrote about it 40 years later in an essay entitled "And, in the Center Ring, That Stupendous Death-Defying Daredevil..." He said "Alfredo Cordona, the wizard of the flying rings, and his partners doubled for the actors. I saw the picture four times, reacting so volcanically to Cordona's forward triple somersault that I almost rent the chair in front of me to matchwood." See more » |
| Movie Connections | Edited into Prisoner of Paradise (2002). See more » |
| Soundtracks | Vaudeville See more » |