Acting
René Deltgen captures Codona's physical poetry and psychological decay.
Direction
Rabenalt stages the aerial sequences with genuine vertigo-inducing terror.
Director
Arthur Maria Rabenalt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Alfredo Codona was the first person to successfully complete a triple somersault on the flying trapeze; this film was made just two years after his actual 1937 suicide.
Nazi Germany's UFA studio produced this as 'entertainment' while systematically destroying actual circus families as 'asocial' elements — the irony is almost too bitter.
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