Leap Into Life
1924 film
- Xenia Desni
- Walter Rilla
- Paul Heidemann
Production
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Messter Film
Release date
- 4 February 1924 (1924-02-04)
Running time
- Silent
- German intertitles
Leap Into Life (German: Der Sprung ins Leben) is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Johannes Guter and starring Xenia Desni, Walter Rilla and Paul Heidemann. It features one the earliest film appearances of the future star Marlene Dietrich.[1] It was partly shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin as well as on location around Rügen in the Baltic Sea. The film's sets were designed by Rudi Feld.
Synopsis
A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover.
Cast
- Xenia Desni as Idea - Zirkusartistin
- Walter Rilla as Frank - Ideas Partner
- Paul Heidemann as Dr. Rudolf Borris
- Frida Richard as Rudolfs Tante Sophie
- Käthe Haack as Dr. Borris' Sekretärin
- Leonhard Haskel Le as Zirkusdirektor
- Lydia Potechina as Frau des Zirkusdirektors
- Dr. Gebbing as Dompteur
- Hans Brausewetter as Borris' Freund
- Marlene Dietrich as Mädchen am Strand
- Hans Heinrich von Twardowski as Geiger
- Max Gülstorff as Geiger
- Erling Hanson
- Max Valentin
- Ernst Pröckl
- Hermann Thimig
References
- ^ Chandler p. 45
Bibliography
- Chandler, Charlotte. Marlene: Marlene Dietrich, A Personal Biography. Simon and Schuster, 2011.
External links
- Leap Into Life at IMDb
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Films directed by Johannes Guter
- The Diamond Foundation (1917)
- The Ghost Hunt (1918)
- Comrades (1919)
- Eternal River (1920)
- The Woman in Heaven (1920)
- The Tophar Mummy (1920)
- The Thirteen of Steel (1921)
- The Black Panther (1921)
- Circus of Life (1921)
- Murders in the Greenstreet (1921)
- The Call of Destiny (1922)
- Lust for Life (1922)
- Barmaid (1922)
- Princess Suwarin (1923)
- Leap Into Life (1924)
- Express Train of Love (1925)
- The Tower of Silence (1925)
- The Adventure of Mr. Philip Collins (1925)
- The Boxer's Bride (1926)
- Two Under the Stars (1927)
- Rhenish Girls and Rhenish Wine (1927)
- Grand Hotel (1927)
- At Ruedesheimer Castle There Is a Lime Tree (1928)
- Because I Love You (1928)
- The Blue Mouse (1928)
- Foolish Happiness (1929)
- Her Dark Secret (1929)
- Once You Give Away Your Heart (1929)
- The Wrong Husband (1931)
- The Triangle of Fire (1932)
- Miss Liselott (1934)
- Twelve Minutes After Midnight (1939)
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