Comédie

French

Bille de clown

Title Bille de clown
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Gaston’s vocation is to be a clown and he loves a pretty circus rider, but his stern bookkeeper father does not think much of the way his son is heading. Even after he dies, he goes on keeping a close eye on his offspring from above!

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Life is a circus

Title Life is a circus
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Ailing circus artists discover a magic lamp and decide to use it to save the business.

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Striped Trip (La Croisière tigrée)

Title Striped Trip (La Croisière tigrée)
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Soviet cruise shop « Evgeni Onegin » is carrying cages with tigers and lions for a Soviet circus. One loose monkey unlocks all the cages, letting all the big cats out. Fortunately, young, joyful and fanciful canteen employee Marianne is onboard and to everyone’s astonishment, she will manage to take the situation under control…

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L'Enfant du cirque (Il figlio del circo) (II)

Title L'Enfant du cirque (Il figlio del circo) (II)
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Young Rocco is abused by his drunken father and neglected by his step-mother. He flees and seeks refuge with his friend and circus tightrope walker Flip. Rocco has a beautiful voice and Flip, as a former famous tenor, will teach him how to sing. Rocco then meets a manager and gets a contract… That is when his father barges in.

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Fifi la plume

Title Fifi la plume
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A burglar seeks refuge in the circus to escape the police and arrives right in the middle of a performance with a wild cage to the delight of the spectators, who take him for a clown…

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Man is not a bird / L'Homme n'est pas un oiseau (Covek nije tica)

Title Man is not a bird / L'Homme n'est pas un oiseau (Covek nije tica)
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Two loosish narrative threads staging two workers in a copper plant : the first one is a tough muscular party animal, who abuses his wife. In her absence he gave most of her dresses to his mistress.

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Juliet of the spirits / Juliette des esprits (Giulietta degli spiriti)

Title Juliet of the spirits / Juliette des esprits (Giulietta degli spiriti)
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Giulietta is a wealthy housewife who lives with her husband and two maids in a rich house. Her parents and family distract her from a rather aseptic evironment. But she discovers that her husband, whom she loves innocently, is unfaithful. An extraordinary mental world then opens up before her, in which her mind blends dream with reality. In Giulietta we find no longer the conventional housewife, but a person gifted with an immense depth of feeling.

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Franco e Ciccio: Ladro e Guardia

Title Franco e Ciccio: Ladro e Guardia
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A cop has a cousin who is a thief. One day, while chasing him he ends up in a room with a murdered man. The two are photographed at the murder scene and believed to be the assassins. The police however believe in their innocence and send the odd couple on the trail of the real murderer who is thought to be working in a circus.

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