Overview
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
- Liane Haid as Elvira Starke, Zirkusdirektrice
- Trude Berliner as Kitty Rallay
- Karl Ludwig Diehl as Luftakrobat
- Walter Rilla as Morini. Kunstschütze
- Rolf von Goth as Fred Rallay
- Valy Arnheim as Sprechstallmeister
- Rudolf Meinhard-Jünger as Chef der Mordkommission
- Oskar Marion as Oskar Haupt
- Hermann Picha as Eduardo
- Ellen Plessow