Circus Life

The story

Circus themed films usually provides a thrilling drama. The relatively obscure "Schatten der Manege" provides just what you'd expect. Doing the trapeze act angle, combining it with romance and jealousy for a darker plot, it has a lot of the right the ingredients. Does have moments where it spends too long of circus footage, which ruins some of the pacing, but otherwise a fine circus flick.

Cast & crew

Liane HaidElvira Starke, Zirkusdirektrice

Trude BerlinerKitty Rallay

Karl Ludwig DiehlLuftakrobat

Walter RillaMorini. Kunstschütze

Rolf von GothFred Rallay

Valy ArnheimSprechstallmeister

Rudolf Meinhard-JüngerChef der Mordkommission

Oskar MarionOskar Haupt

Hermann PichaEduardo

Ellen PlessowCast

Georg H. Schnell1. Kriminalkommissar

Luigi BernauerRefaingesang