Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)

29 Oct 1968 • Drama • 1h 43m
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"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.

Alexander Kluge
Director
Alexander Kluge
Writer
Hannelore Hoger, Sigi Graue, Alfred Edel
Starring

Language: German
Awards: 2 wins & 3 nominations
Country: West Germany
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6.5

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