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Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) [N/A]

Featuring:
Hannelore Hoger, Sigi Graue, Alfred Edel

Written by:
Alexander Kluge

Directed by:
Alexander Kluge


Release Date:
August 29, 1968

Original Title:
Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos

Alternate Titles:
Artistas bajo la lona del circo: perplejos
Artisterna i cirkuskupolen: rådlösa
Artisti sotto la tenda del circo: perplessi
Artysci pod kopula cyrku: bezradni
Les artistes sous les chapiteaux: perplexes
Os Artistas sob a Cúpula do Circo
The Artist in the Circus Dome: Clueless
Артисты под куполом цирка: Беспомощны

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Kairos-Film

Production Countries:
Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 103

Overview from TheMovieDB

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.

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Overview from Open Movies

"Neues Kino movie" about life in the circus dome narrated in Brechtian spirit; deceptively illusionist grip is broken violently by aloofness, sweeping subjective tracking shots interrupted by a flat snapshot of an old stick, calm color sequence stops up a moving black and white scene and interviewed people in close-up becomes suddenly silent. Kluge has also taken a different motto from Brecht to heart, namely, that the artist's task is to maintain: despite its ambiguity "Circus performers" in a somewhat simplified format, could have been a film for children.

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Rankings and Honors

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.5/10
Awards Won: 2 wins & 3 nominations

Performers

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Production

Assistant Camera:
Dietrich Lohmann

Assistant Director:
Dagmar Klaiber

Assistant Editor:
Maximiliane Mainka

Director:
Alexander Kluge

Director of Photography:
Günther Hörmann
Thomas Mauch

Editor:
Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus

Producer:
Alexander Kluge

Sound:
Bernd Höltz

Sound Mixer:
Hansjörg Wicha

Writer:
Alexander Kluge

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