''Salto Mortale'' is a 1931 German

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directed by

Ewald André Dupont Ewald André Dupont (25 December 1891 – 12 December 1956) was a German film director, one of the pioneers of the Cinema of Germany, German film industry. He was often credited as E. A. Dupont. Early life and career Born in Zeitz, Saxony and rai ...

and starring Anna Sten, Anton Walbrook and

Reinhold Bernt Reinhold Bernt (19 December 1902 – 26 October 1981) was a German film actor. Bernt was born Reinhold Bienert in Berlin and died in West Berlin. Career Bernt's acting career began in Stuttgart with a theater debut. Soon after, he traveled to B ...

. A

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, it has been described as being "in all but name a sound film remake of ''

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''" and was a box office success.Bergfelder & Cargnelli p.33 The film's sets were designed by the

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Alfred Junge Alfred Junge (29 January 1886, Görlitz, Silesia (now Saxony), Germany – 16 July 1964, Bad Kissingen, West Germany) was a German production designer who spent a large part of his career working in the British film industry. Biography Jung ...

and

Fritz Maurischat Fritz Maurischat (April 27, 1893 in Berlin – December 11, 1986) was a German production designer. He made his film debut in 1924. Over the next 38 years, he worked on over 70 films, all of them in his native Germany. He earned an Oscar nominatio ...

. It was made at the Babelelsberg Studios in

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took place at the Circus Busch in the city. A separate French-language version was also made by Dupont.

Cast

* Anna Sten as Marina * Anton Walbrook as Robby - gennant Studienrat *

as Jim *

Otto Wallburg Otto Wallburg (21 February 1889 – 29 October 1944) was a German actor and Kabarett performer. He was a prolific film actor during the late silent and early sound era. He was arrested by the Nazis when they occupied the Netherlands and was kil ...

as Pressechef *

Kurt Gerron Kurt Gerron (born Kurt Gerson; 11 May 1897 – 30 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He had a very successful career in cabaret and film before World War II, but was then forbidden to work and was sent to Theresienstadt ...

as Grimby * Grethe Weiser as Robbys Freundin

References

Bibliography

* Bergfelder, Tim & Cargnelli, Christian. ''Destination London: German-speaking emigrés and British cinema, 1925-1950''. Berghahn Books, 2008.

External links

* 1931 films 1931 drama films German drama films Films of the Weimar Republic 1930s German-language films Films directed by E. A. Dupont Circus films German black-and-white films 1931 multilingual films German multilingual films 1930s German films Films shot at Babelsberg Studios Films scored by Paul Dessau Films scored by Artur Guttmann Films scored by Walter Jurmann German-language drama films Films based on French novels Films based on works by Alfred Machard {{1930s-Germany-film-stub