The Artist in The Circus Dome: Clueless
– A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in..
Release Date:
29 Oct 1968
Language:
German
Director:
Alexander Kluge
Writer:
Alexander Kluge
Main Actors:
Hannelore Hoger, Sigi Graue, Alfred Edel, Bernd Höltz
Plot:
"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.
Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations.
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