Alarm in the Circus

Alarm in the Circus () is an East German crime movie. It was directed by Gerhard Klein. It was released in 1954.

Cast
 Erwin Geschonneck as Klott
 Uwe-Jens Pape as Jimmy
 Karl Kendzia as Batta
 Ulrich Thein as Herbert
 Hans Winter as Klaus
 Ernst-Georg Schwill as Max
 Gertrud Keller as Helli
 Annelise Matschulat as Mrs. Weigel
 Siegfried Weiß as Hepfield
 Peter Dornseif as Police officer
 Günther Haack as Catcher
 Horst Giese as uncredited role
Reception
Alarm in the Circus had 3.6 million watches in 1954. It was the biggest grossing East German movie that year.Alarm in the Circus  on PROGRESS' website. It sold 5,515,078 tickets in total.List of the 50 highest-grossing DEFA films. Klein and Kohlhaase both won the National Prize, 3rd degree, for their work on the movie.Alarm in the Circus  on DEFA Foundation's website.

The Catholic Film Service defined the film as "exciting, well-made crime film that presents the background of a divided Berlin in a highly authentic manner."<ref>Alarm in the Circus'' on the German Film Lexicon.</ref> Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor wrote that it had "drawn a clear contrast between the city's halves that fit the official communist paradigm."
References

Other websites

''Alarm in the Circus original poster] on ostfilm.de.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070609175121/http://www.filmportal.de/df/b6/Uebersicht,,,,,,,,9A93D350D464497483BBE34EB62231B1,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.html Alarm in the Circus on filmportal.de.
Alarm in the Circus on cinema.de

Category:1954 crime movies
Category:German crime movies
Category:Movies set in Berlin