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Menschen vom Varieté

1939 · 86 min

A middling backstage melodrama where variety acts and a jealousy-driven crime plot sit awkwardly together, watchable but never gripping.

Overview
In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a murderous poster on his jealous partner. - Not particularly successful mixture of vaudeville theatre numbers, artiste's destiny and crime film tension, on an average produced and played. A production rotated in Budapest with the popular dancer La Jana.

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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • obsession
    • betrayal
    • crime
    • art
    Places
    • big city
    • workplace
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action2
    Horror1
    Humour2
    Realism6
    Romance3
    Tension4
    Darkness4
    Complexity3
    Emotional weight4

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    Details

    Genres
    drama, crime
    Directed by
    Josef von Báky
    Written by
    Attila Orbók, Thea von Harbou, Erich Willke
    Starring
    Attila Hörbiger, La Jana, Christl Mardayn, Karin Hardt, Hans Holt, Edith Oss, Hans Moser, Victor Janson
    Music
    Georg Haentzschel
    Cinematography
    István Eiben
    Runtime
    86 min
    Country
    Germany, Hungary
    Languages
    German

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