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1925 in film

-Events:*November 5: The Big Parade holds its Grand Premier*December 30: premier of Ben-Hur the most expensive silent film ever made costing 4-6 million dollars -Top grossing films :...

 silent

Silent film

A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...

 drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by Ewald Andre Dupont

Ewald André Dupont

Ewald André Dupont was a German film director, one of the founders of the German film industry. He was frequently credited as E. A. Dupont....

 based on the novel Der Eid des Stephan Huller (1923) by Felix Hollaender. Jannings portrays "Boss Huller," an ex-trapeze artist who runs a seedy carnival with his wife (Maly Delschaft) and child. Huller insists that the family take in a beautiful stranger (Lya De Putti

Lya De Putti

Lya De Putti was a Hungarian film actress of the silent era, noted for her portrayal of vamp characters.-Early life and career:...

) as a new sideshow dancer, with whom he develops a new trapeze

Trapeze

A trapeze is a short horizontal bar hung by ropes or metal straps from a support. It is an aerial apparatus commonly found in circus performances...

 number. The trapeze scenes are set in the Berlin Wintergarten theatre

Berlin Wintergarten theatre

The Berlin Wintergarten theatre was a large variety theatre in Berlin that opened in approximately 1887 and was destroyed by bombs in June 1944. The name was eventually taken on by a theatre in Potsdamer Strasse in 1992....

. The camera swings from long shot to close-up, like the acrobats.

Cast

• Emil Jannings
  Emil Jannings
  Emil Jannings was a German actor. He was not only the first actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, but also the first person to be presented an Oscar...
  
   as Boss Huller
• Maly Delschaft as The wife of Boss
• Lya De Putti
  Lya De Putti
  Lya De Putti was a Hungarian film actress of the silent era, noted for her portrayal of vamp characters.-Early life and career:...
  
   as Bertha
• Warwick Ward
  Warwick Ward
  Warwick Ward was an English actor and film producer. He appeared in 64 films between 1919 and 1933. He also produced 19 films between 1931 and 1958.He was born in St...
  
   as Artinelli
• Georg John
  Georg John
  Georg John was a German stage and film actor.-Early life:Georg John was born in Schmiegel, Province of Posen, Imperial Germany.- Career :John began his career around 1900 in smaller stages and traveling theatres...
  
  

Influence

The German director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Florian Maria Georg Christian, Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck is a German film director, best known for writing and directing the 2007 Oscar-winning film The Lives of Others and the 2010 film The Tourist.-Personal life and family:...

 cites being unexpectedly exposed to the film as a child of four as the start of his interest in the medium.

This film is believed to be the first documentary evidence of Unicycle hockey

Unicycle hockey

Unicycle hockey is a team sport, similar to roller or inline hockey, except that each player must be mounted on a unicycle to play the ball...

- it contains a short sequence showing two people playing the game.

External links

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