Circus Life

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.

• Heinz PaulDirector
• Fritz FalkensteinScreenplay
• Paula BuschWriter
• Ernst Erich BuderOriginal Music Composer

• 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