King of the ring

Movie
Original title	King of the ring
Country of production	Austria
original language	German
Publishing year	1954
length	95, 97 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Ernst Marischka
script	Ernst Marischka
production	Ernst Marischka
music	Anton Profes ; Gerhard Winkler
camera	Hans Schneeberger
cut	Anna Höllering
occupation
	Rudolf Schock : Fritz; Germaine Damar : Susi Brinkmann, acrobatic dancer; Walter Müller : Billy; Hans Richter : Heinz; Fritz Imhoff : Moritz Berner, circus director; Elma Karlowa : Herta from Kemeti; Helmut Qualtinger : Mirko, the clown; Theodor Danegger : Charles Belleroy, music teacher and manager; Heinz Conrads : Anton, stable boy; Hans Putz : Jack Holl, acrobat and dancer; Hermann Erhardt :;

König der Manege is an Austrian feature film by Ernst Marischka with Rudolf Schock and Germaine Damar in the leading roles.

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The circus artist Fritz is part of the "3 Meteors", an artist group consisting of himself and his friends Billy and Heinz, whose top number on the trapeze is a double somersault without a net over a ring filled with tigers. Although the world of traveling people is his whole life, Fritz also has a gifted voice with which, according to the music educator and manager Charles Belleroy, he could fill entire halls.

Fritz then leaves the ring and shows his vocal skills with arias from Flotow's Martha, Verdi's Aida and a song by Rossini. Luck seems to hold him in love too, but in the fight for the heart of the pretty acrobatic dancer Susi Brinkmann he is in tough competition with the acrobat and dancer Jack Holl. In Zurich he meets his two old buddies Billy and Heinz again, and immediately the circus air grabs him again. Fritz rejects a tempting offer from US showbiz agents and instead returns to the ring as a singing circus acrobat.

Production notes

König der Manege was created in Vienna-Sievering (studio recordings) as well as in Salzburg and on Lake Wörthersee. The premiere took place on September 24, 1954 in Düsseldorf. The Berlin premiere was on October 15 of the same year.

Karl Ehrlich also took over the production management. Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff designed the film structures implemented by Alexander Sawczynski , Gerdago designed the costumes. Anton Profes was the musical director. Franz Hofer was a simple cameraman under Hans Schneeberger's leadership.

Reviews

Film.at focused primarily on Helmut Qualtinger's acting performance: “Helmut Qualtinger can be seen as the clown and magician Mirko. Again he is allowed to adopt a Slavic accent, he grimaces and outrages (surpassed only by Heinz Conrads), "not always socially acceptable, but funny". With a blasé face he occasionally plays the phlegmatic clown, only to later fall into a Groucho Marx attitude when he wags around as a possible manager Rudolf Schock like Paul Kemp or Theo Lingen Kiepura. "

In the lexicon of the international film it says: "Circus pleasure play with hits and opera excerpts - Rudolf Schock tailor-made."

Individual evidence

Web links

[1] Short review on film.at

[2] King of the Manege. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 1, 2020 .