''The Circus Princess'' (german: Die Zirkusprinzessin) is a 1929 German
silent film
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directed by
Victor Janson
Victor Arthur Eduard Janson ( lv, Viktors Artūrs Eduards Jansons; 25 September 1884 – 29 June 1960) was a German stage and film actor and film director of Latvians, Latvian ethnicity.
Selected filmography Actor
* ''Your Dearest Enemy'' (1916)
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. It is an adaptation of the operetta ''
Die Zirkusprinzessin
' (''The Circus Princess'') is an operetta in three acts by Hungarian composer Emmerich Kálmán to a German libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald. It premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna on 26 March 1926 and went on to 344 p ...
''. It was shot at the
Staaken Studios in
Berlin
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. The film's sets were designed by the
art director
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It is the charge of a sole art director to supervise and ...
s
Botho Hoefer
Botho Hoefer (1880–1958) was a German art director.Parrill p.231
Selected filmography
* '' The Golden Plague'' (1921)
* ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1922)
* '' Louise de Lavallière'' (1922)
* '' The Evangelist'' (1924)
* '' The Hobgoblin'' (1924)
* ' ...
and
Hans Minzloff
Hans Minzloff (1890–1962) was a German art director.Gemünden p.171
Selected filmography
* '' Our Heavenly Bodies'' (1925)
* '' Struggle for the Soil'' (1925)
* ''Carnival Magic'' (1927)
* '' The Insurmountable'' (1928)
* '' The Circus Princes ...
Cast
In alphabetical order
References
Bibliography
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1929 films
Films of the Weimar Republic
Films directed by Victor Janson
German silent feature films
Films based on operettas
Circus films
German black-and-white films
Films shot at Staaken Studios
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