Alarm in the Circus
Alarm in the Circus German Alarm im Zirkus is an East German crime film directed by Gerhard Klein. It was released in 1954.
Alarm in the Circus was the first of the socalled Berlin films, a trilogy of pictures that were made in collaboration between director Gerhard Klein and writer Wolfgang Kohlhaase, that were notable for their pioneering of neorealism in German cinema and for the manner in which they reflected the reality of the city in the years before the building of the Berlin Wall, that was critical of the Americanization of its western side. It was followed by the sequels A Berlin Romance 1956 and Berlin Schnhauser Corner 1957.Alarm in the Circus was viewed by 3.6 million people in 1954, becoming the highestgrossing East German film of the year, and sold 5,515,078 tickets in total. sold Klein and Kohlhaase both won the National Prize, 3rd degree, for their work on the film. ........
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