Téléfilm

French

The Indomitable Leni Peickert (Die Unbezähmbare Leni Peickert )

Title The Indomitable Leni Peickert (Die Unbezähmbare Leni Peickert )
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Loose sequel to Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed. It continues the story of circus owner Leni Peickert as she returns to the Big Top after being expelled from the world of broadcast television. The circus in winter. Desperate times.

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The Clowns (I Clowns)

Title The Clowns (I Clowns)
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Since early childhood, Fellini is attracted and even subjugated by the circus. Here he sort of goes on a wistful journey towards former clowns and their memories.

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Parade

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In a circus, Tati playing a ringmaster presents a series of attractions. In between he revives his former mime artist acts: the tennis player, the boxer, the goalkeeper, the horserider, the angler.

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High risk

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A troupe of former circus performers plot to steal a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC.

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Sideshow

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A teenage boy runs away from home. He joins the circus but finds out that it's not all what it's cracked up to be. But then the boy becomes a witness to a murder, and he must try to stay out of the killer's way.

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When the circus came to town

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When the Circus Came to Town chronicles the life of Mary Flynn, a woman nearing middle age living in a small town. When the circus comes to town, she realizes nothing will ever change unless she does something different, so she leaves her boring sheltered life to run away and join the circus. While adapting to her new life, she finds herself challenged, and in the end, happy with it.

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Dot and the Smugglers (Dot et les contrebandiers)

Title Dot and the Smugglers (Dot et les contrebandiers)
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A circus owner attempts to capture a mysterious Bunyip, but Dot and her bushland friends try to foil his plans. Dot soon discovers that the circus is merely a front for an international wildlife smuggling operation. Backed by her pals, Burra the Kookaburra and two boxing kangaroos, Dot goes on the warpath.

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Barnum!

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The film traces Phineas Taylor Barnum’s career from 1835 to 1881 when he joined James A. Bailey to form the famous ‘Greatest Show on Earth’.

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Circus on the moon

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The film takes place in Sri Lanka. In the story, the Moslem-Buddhist civil war has driven a local boy to hide out in a traveling circus which his white mother helps run. The fantastic nature of this story is borne out by the condition of the boy's mother, who survived the Nazi death camps and yet, in the 1980s, looks like a young woman. Despite the fragile refuge offered by the circus, the civil war begins to affect the performers’ lives.

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La dame du cirque (The lady of the circus)

Title La dame du cirque (The lady of the circus)
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Michaela Destrez receives a promising job offer abroad - but when she meets circus manager Martin Kier she falls under the spell of life in the Big Top, and decides to train as a circus rider. Martin stretches Michaela's abilities to the limit during the training sessions, however, and the circus employees regard her as an unwelcome intruder. Isabella, who is an excellent rider and is also suffering from unrequited love for Martin, is particularly jealous of Michaela. Very soon, however, Michaela becomes the star of the circus, and Martin's wife.

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