Garçon élastique

Screen version of the story of the same name by D. Grigorovich. Petya became a flat orphan after his mother’s death and was sent apprentice to Bekker, a circus man of muscle and a cruel and unfair person. Clown Edwards sympathized and loved the boy and secretly taught him real circus skills. But once the boy was frightened by the shouts of Bekker during the performance and fell down to his death.