Artisten

Artisten aka Harry Piels 100. film or Prince of the arena is a German circus movie from 1934 to 1935 starring Susi Lanner, Hans Junkermann, Hilde Hildebrand and Harry Piel, who also acted as director. The screenplay was written by Max W. Kimmich after the silent movie The secret of the circus Barr.

The film was produced within three weeks, fromDecember 1934, to the end of the month by the Berlin Ariel film company. Most interiors were shot at the companys studios in BerlinJohannisthal, while the location shots were produced in Dresden and Berlin. In Dresden, Harry Peel had rented the giant building of the former circus Sarrasani. Parts of the scenes shot there were filmed publicly, and drew a big audience. The money that was collected this way was given to the Winterhilfswerk. Later on, the shooting was completed at circus Busch in Berlin. The final movie passed censorship onMarch 1935 and made its debut onMarch. It was awarded artificially valuable by film checkers of the propaganda ministry. Whether it has been banned after the downfall of the Third Reich, is quite unknown. In 1963, it was developed via DFF, the TV programme of the German Democratic Republic. Nine years later, in 1972, another TV version was broadcast by the West German ZDF.Klaus, Ulrich J. German sound films. Encyclopedia of the fulllength German speaking feature films, sorted by their first showings. Ulrich J. Klaus. Berlin et al. Klausarchive, 1935 ........

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