The Circus (1936) movie

Vaudeville dancer Marion Dixon is with her German manager von Kneischitz on tour - in Moskau. Her act includes a gun shooting her to the trapeze, the stage director there wants a copy of this act for the USSR. She falls in love with a Soviet enginer, but von Kneischitz blackmails her with her dark spot in her life, she has a colored baby, to leave Moskau.

The Circus (1936) movie

Genres: Comedy, Musical
Production Co: Mosfilm

Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
Writing Credits: Grigori Aleksandrov, Isaak Babel (dialogue), Ilya Ilf, Valentin Kataev, Yevgeni Petrov
Music by Isaak Dunayevsky
Cinematography by Vladimir Nilsen, Boris Petrov

Cast:
Lyubov Orlova as Marion Dixon
Evgeniya Melnikova as Rayechka, the director's daughter
Vladimir Volodin as Ludvig, circus director
Sergei Stolyarov as Ivan Petrovich Martinov
Pavel Massalsky as Kneishitz
Aleksandr Komissarov as Skamejkin
N. Otto as Chaplin
Jim Patterson as Jimmy, Marion's son
Fyodor Kurikhin as Captain Borneo, animal tamer
Sergei Antimonov as Shprekhshtalmejster
Solomon Mikhoels - Cameo
Pavel Geraga - Cameo
Lev Sverdlin - Cameo
Vladimir Kandelaki - Cameo