The Big Number
1943 film
- 8 January 1943 (1943-01-08)
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The Big Number or The Big Act (German: Die große Nummer) is a 1943 German drama film directed by Karl Anton and starring Leny Marenbach, Maly Delschaft and Paul Hoffmann.[1] A circus film, it was originally intended to star Harry Piel but due to delays on Panic he withdrew from the project, although he had contributed to the screenplay. Location shooting took place at the Circus Sarrasani in Dresden. The film's sets were designed by the art director Willy Schiller. It was one of three entertainment-focused films playing in Berlin at the time of the Sportpalast speech by Joseph Goebbels calling for total war.[2]
Cast
- Leny Marenbach as Helga Wallner
- Maly Delschaft as Marion Wallner
- Paul Hoffmann as Heinrich Wallner
- Rudolf Prack as Peter Stoll
- Paul Kemp as Otto Gellert
- Charlott Daudert as Mariettchen
- Marina Ried as Bianca
- Karl Günther as Direktor Kroll
- Maria Horstweg as Frau Roselli
- Walter Janssen as Zeller
- Heinz Klingenberg as Dr. Buchner
- Rose Rauch as Singer
- Hans Adalbert Schlettow as Basto-Bastelmeyer
References
Bibliography
- Echternkamp, Jörg. Germany and the Second World War Volume IX/II: German Wartime Society 1939-1945: Exploitation, Interpretations. OUP, 2014.
- Skopal, Pavel & Winkel, Roel Vande (ed.) Film Professionals in Nazi-Occupied Europe: Mediation Between the National-Socialist Cultural “New Order” and Local Structures. Springer Nature, 2021.
External links
- The Big Number at IMDb
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Films directed by Karl Anton
- Gypsies (1922)
- The May Fairy (1926)
- Tonka of the Gallows (1930)
- A Girl from the Reeperbahn (1930)
- The Case of Colonel Redl (1931)
- Monsieur Albert (1932)
- The Champion Cook (1932)
- Make-Up (1932)
- The Naked Truth (1932)
- Nothing But Lies (1933)
- Number 33 (1933)
- Simone Is Like That (1933)
- The Porter from Maxim's (1933)
- Monsieur Sans-Gêne (1935)
- Happy Arenas (1935)
- Martha (1936)
- White Slaves (1937)
- We Danced Around the World (1939)
- The Star of Rio (1940)
- The Thing About Styx (1942)
- The Big Number (1943)
- The Impostor (1944)
- Peter Voss, Thief of Millions (1946)
- The Appeal to Conscience (1949)
- The Exchange (1952)
- The Cousin from Nowhere (1953)
- The Rose of Stamboul (1953)
- Bonjour Kathrin (1956)
- The Daring Swimmer (1957)
- Victor and Victoria (1957)
- The Avenger (1960)
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