Overview
An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.
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Based on
Based on Under the Circus Dome
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Setting
Set in the Soviet Union
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Music
Music by Isaak Dunayevsky
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Vladimir Nilsen, Boris Petrov and Boris Aretskiy
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Ilya IlfScreenplay
- Grigori AleksandrovWriter
- Yevgeni PetrovScreenplay
- Valentin KataevScreenplay
- Original title
- Цирк
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 25, 1936
- Original language
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
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In the United States
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Cast
Lyubov OrlovaMarion Dixon
Vladimir VolodinLudvig
Sergey StolyarovIvan Petrovich Martinov
Pavel MassalskyFranz von Kneishitz
Lev SverdlinCameo
Solomon MikhoelsCameo
Yevgeniya MelnikovaRayechka
Fyodor KurikhinCaptain Borneo
Sergei AntimonovShprekhshtalmejster (uncredited)
Pavel GeragaCameo
Vladimir KandelakiCameo
Niki OttoChaplin- Robert Ross
Emmanuil GellerThe Music Conductor- B. KarlinArtist
- Alfonse LutzHorseman
- Nikolai OrlovAn Old Circus Actor
- Anna Panova-PotyomkinaCashier (uncredited)
- Weyland Rodd Sr.Cameo
- Mark TsibulskyFarmer
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