Underplayed Gems

Life in a Circus (1912)

Life in a Circus poster
Original title
Mellum Storbyens Artister
Directed by
Eduard Schnedler-Sørensen
Genre
silent film
Country
Denmark
Runtime
28 min
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A silent film from 1912 set in a circus. It follows performers in a big city circus, showing their lives and dangerous acts.

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What happens

Mellem Storbyens Artister er en dansk stum sensationsfilm fra 1912 produceret af Nordisk Films Kompagni og instrueret af Eduard Schnedler-Sørensen efter manuskript af Alfred Kjerulf. Filmen havde dansk premiere den 8. november 1912 i Panoptikon Teatret og blev i tysktalende lande distribueret som Die große Sensation og Circusleben, i engelsktalende lande som In A Den of Lions og i fransktalende lande som La vie des saltimbanques. Filmen blev i 1959 vist af Det Danske Filmmuseum som led i en retrospektiv udstilling af danske sensationsfilm fra begyndelsen af 1910'erne. I Filmmuseets program for filmen (der også omfattede Shanghai'et og Et Drama paa Havet) blev "rabalderfilmen" og hele sensationsfilmgenren kritiseret voldsomt for sin kommercielle tilgang og sin foragtelige leflen for den korte, overfladiske tilfredsstillelse af publikum. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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