Robby and Jim are two friends working in a circus. When Marina, a new acrobat, enters the show, both men will compete for her love. She needs a partner for a flying number, and one of them will be elected. Then accidents will happen.
Direction
Dupont's circus sequences still dizzying ninety years later.
Acting
Sten smolders; Walbrook's jealousy physically hurts to watch.
Director
E.A. Dupont
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anna Sten was groomed as 'the next Garbo' by producer Sam Goldwyn, who saw this and immediately signed her—then spent years trying to make her happen.
This German production captures Weimar circus culture before it vanished; director Dupont fled the Nazis soon after.
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