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Circus (1936)
Directed by Grigori Aleksandrov
Music, Comedy · 1h 34m
An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.
Cast
Lyubov Orlova
Marion Dixon
Vladimir Volodin
Ludvig
Sergey Stolyarov
Ivan Petrovich Martinov
Pavel Massalsky
Franz von Kneishitz
Lev Sverdlin
Cameo
Solomon Mikhoels
Cameo
Yevgeniya Melnikova
Rayechka
Fyodor Kurikhin
Captain Borneo
Sergei Antimonov
Shprekhshtalmejster (uncredited)
Pavel Geraga
Cameo
Vladimir Kandelaki
Cameo
Niki Otto
Chaplin
Crew
- Director
- Grigori Aleksandrov
- Screenplay
- Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov, Valentin Kataev
- Writer
- Grigori Aleksandrov
- Director of Photography
- Boris Petrov, Vladimir Nilsen
- Original Music Composer
- Isaak Dunayevsky
- Producer
- Zakhar Darevskiy
Details
- Original title
- Цирк
- Release date
- 1936-05-25
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Genres
- Music, Comedy
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Mosfilm