Filmography

The Circus Filmography is the product of collaboration between students and teacher-researchers from the Department Cinema, Theatre and Live Performance at the Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 University. It is a continuously updated website that is open to contributions, listing all films – fictions, animated films, documentaries, series, etc. – devoted to circus or alluding to it.

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Girl on the Bridge (La Fille sur le pont)

The plot centres around knifethrower Gabor and a girl cal


The Clown at Midnight (Le Clown de l'horreur)

A team of student volunteers restore the hall of an aband


Der Bär Ist Los

13-year-old Julia has to leave Berlin to spend her holida


The Quarry (La Faille)

A gay pastor is murdered somewhere in South Africa.


Fire-Eater (Tulennielijä or Le Cracheur de feu)

The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki du


Les Baltus au cirque

The Baltus go to the circus.


La dresseuse

A female journalist reports on the fabulous circus world.


The Red Dwarf (Le nain rouge)

Lucien is a dwarf who works hard in a large legal office.


Circus Palestine (Kirkas Palestina or Cirque Palestine)

A Russian circus arrives on the West Bank during the inti


Sawdust Tales

A whimsical and timeless parable on survival in hard time


La Comtesse de Bâton Rouge

Montreal film-maker Rex Prince travels to Louisiana to se


In the Presence of a clown (En présence d'un clown or Larmar och gör sig till)

October 1925.


Larger than life (Un éléphant sur les bras)

Motivational speaker Jack Corcoran receives a huge inheri


La dame du cirque (The lady of the circus)

Michaela Destrez receives a promising job offer abroad -


When night is falling

An uptight and conservative woman, working on a tenure as


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