Circus Renz (1943 film)

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Circus Renz (German: Zirkus Renz) is a 1943 German drama film directed by Arthur Maria Rabenalt and starring René Deltgen, Paul Klinger and Angelika Hauff. It is a circus film, made as a deliberately escapist release at a time when the Second World War was starting to turn against Germany and its allies.[1] The film takes its title from the real Circus Renz and is loosely based on the career of its founder Ernst Renz. It premiered at Berlin's UFA-Palast am Zoo in September 1943. It was a major commercial success.

Circus Renz
Film poster
GermanZirkus Renz
Directed byArthur Maria Rabenalt
Written byRoland Betsch
Otto Ernst Hesse
Produced byAlf Teichs
Starring
CinematographyWilly Winterstein
Edited byGertrud Hinz-Nischwitz
Music byAlbert Fischer
Production
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Distributed byDeutsche Filmvertriebs
Release date
  • 10 September 1943 (1943-09-10)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
Budget2,149,000 ℛ︁ℳ︁

It was made partly at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Ernst H. Albrecht. Location shooting took place around Breslau in Silesia.

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References

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  1. ^ Ross, Corey (2008). Media and the Making of Modern Germany: Mass Communications, Society, and Politics from the Empire to the Third Reich. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 369. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199278213.001.0001. ISBN 978-0199278213.

Bibliography

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  • Bock, Hans-Michael & Bergfelder, Tim. The Concise CineGraph. Encyclopedia of German Cinema. Berghahn Books, 2009.
  • Moeller, Felix. The Film Minister: Goebbels and the Cinema in the Third Reich. Edition Axel Menges, 2000.
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