Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos
Directed by Alexander Kluge
Starring Hannelore Hoger
Release date(s) September 1968 (1968-09) (VFF)
29 October 1968 (1968-10-29)
Running time 104 minutes
Country West Germany
Language German

The Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed (German: Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos) is a 1968 West German film directed by Alexander Kluge. The film is made in a collage style, featuring newsreels and quotations from philosophers alongside the story of a failing circus whose owner, Leni (Hannelore Hoger), must decide whether her dream of a new kind of circus is too optimistic. The film is a symbolic representation of Kluge's own frustrations in trying to help stimulate the New German Cinema movement.[1]

The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Notes

  1. ^ David Bordwell and Kriston Thompson, Film History: An Introduction, 2e (McGraw Hill, 2003), p. 573.

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