
Ewald André Dupont
Director

Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he longs for his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son behind. He makes Berta-Marie his partner in a new trapeze number. One day, the famous trapeze artist Artinelli takes note of them and engages them for his trapeze show in Berlin. Their salto mortale becomes an immediate sensation. Calculatedly and cold, Artinelli seduces Berta-Marie and destroys "Boss'" happiness.
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Ewald André Dupont
Director

Emil Jannings
Boss Huller

Maly Delschaft
Frau Huller

Lya De Putti
Bertha-Marie

Warwick Ward
Artinelli

Georg John
Seeman

Kurt Gerron
Hafenarbeiter

Paul Rehkopf
Zuschauer auf dem Jahrmarkt

Trude Hesterberg
Zuschauerin imm Varieté
Charles Lincoln
Spanischer Artist
Enrico Rastelli
Jongleur
Etelka Maquita
Dancer
The Flying Codonas
Acrobatic Ensemble
Alex Hyde and his Original New York Jazz Orchestra
Alex Hyde and His Original New York Jazz Orchestra
Felix Hollaender
Writer

Ewald André Dupont
Writer