Variety (1925 film)

Variety German Variet vaiete , also known by the alternative titles Jealousy or Vaudeville is a 1925 silent drama film directed by Ewald Andre Dupont based on the novel Der Eid des Stephan Huller 1923 by Felix Hollaender. Jannings portrays Boss Huller, an extrapeze artist who runs a seedy carnival with his wife Maly Delschaft and child. Huller insists that the family take in a beautiful stranger Lya De Putti as a new sideshow dancer, with whom he develops a new trapeze number. The trapeze scenes are set in the Berlin Wintergarten theatre. The camera swings from long shot to closeup, like the acrobats.

This film is believed to be the first documentation of unicycle hockey it contains a short sequence showing two people playing the game.

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