The Big Number

The Big Number
Directed byKarl Anton
Written byKarl Anton
Erwin Biswanger
Alexander Lix
Harry Piel
Felix von Eckardt
Produced byKarl Anton
StarringLeny Marenbach
Maly Delschaft
Paul Hoffmann
CinematographyGeorg Bruckbauer
Walter Roßkopf
Edited byElise Lustig
Music byFriedrich Schröder
Production
company
Distributed byDeutsche Filmvertriebs
Release date
  • 8 January 1943 (1943-01-08)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

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

References

  1. ^ Film Professionals in Nazi-Occupied Europe p.255
  2. ^ Echternkamp p.109

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.
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