Circus blood
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Circus blood |
| Country of production | German Empire |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1916 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Oswald |
| script | Richard Oswald |
| production | Richard Oswald |
| camera | Ernst Krohn |
| occupation | |
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Zirkusblut is a German silent film drama from 1916 directed by Richard Oswald .
action
Georg Bertrand is addicted to gambling. The son of the old landowner Geierstein had broken his word of honor to his father and was expelled from his parents' house. In his distress, the young man wants to commit suicide. But it turns out differently: Georg comes across a traveling circus, whose director, the clown Müller, takes him in and trains him to become an artist.
Many years have passed, Georg married Alexandra Müller, the director's daughter, and with her has a daughter named Josefine. The small family soon founds its own circus dynasty with its own traveling circus, which is, however, much larger than that of the father-in-law. One day Georg's brother Wolf visits this circus and immediately recognizes its director. Wolf is completely surprised because he, like the rest of the Geiersteins, believed that Georg once committed suicide.
Wolf makes Georg give up circus life and return to the old life. A Geierstein is expected to fulfill his family duties and move to the estate with the family. And so Georg returns to his old life, with his wife, child and father-in-law in tow. But just as Georg does not get out of his skin and confesses to his roots, his wife and their father are circus people through and through and decide to part with Georg and return to the circus. Only little Josefine, who hates circus life, stays with her father. For Alexandra and father Müller, the return to the circus means social decline, one day Alexandra dies in a fall from a horse.
Production notes
The five-act film was censored in April 1916, was banned from young people and had its world premiere on May 5, 1916 in Berlin's Tauentzienpalast . In Austria-Hungary, circus blood started on November 3, 1916.
Manfred Noa created the buildings .
criticism
Paimann's film lists summed up: "Material, game, photos and scenery, especially the various circus scenes very good".
Individual evidence
Web links
- Circus blood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Circus blood at filmportal.de
- Circus blood at The German Early Cinema Database