Circus

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Circus

1936

1h 29m

Musical

Comedy

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A vaudevillian (Lyubov Orlova) with a dastardly manager falls in love with a Soviet proletariat.

Kam Williams

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04/29/2009

4/4

A touching tale of tolerance from Russia circa 1936 that doesn't deserve to be dismissed as propaganda but rather elevated as a refreshing and more-enlightened alternative to the racist depictions of blacks that Hollywood was cranking out at the same time

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09/25/2014

One truly bizarre melodrama from the Soviet Union; fascinating, yet also uncanny.

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Grigoriy Aleksandrov

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Lyubov Orlova

Marion Dikson

Evgeniya Melnikova

Raechka

Vladimir Volodin

Lyudvig

Sergey Stolyarov

Ivan Martynov

Fedor Kurihin

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A vaudevillian (Lyubov Orlova) with a dastardly manager falls in love with a Soviet proletariat.

Director: Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Screenwriter: Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Production Co: Mosfilm
Genre: Musical, Comedy
Original Language: Russian
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 29, 2019
Runtime: 1h 29m

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