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Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)

1h 43m

Running Time

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968)

Name: Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Genre: Drama
Released: 1968-08-29

1h 43m

Running Time

Plot.

A young circus director ends up going into television after her father, a trapeze performer, dies in a circus accident.

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Cast & Crew.

Hannelore Hoger

Leni Peickert

Sigi Graue

Manfred Peickert

Alfred Edel

Dr. Busch

Klaus Schwarzkopf

Gerloff, Philologe

Bernd Höltz

Herr von Lueptow / Sound

Kurt Jürgens

Mackensen, Dompteur

Gilbert Houcke

Dompteur Houke

Eva Oertel

Gitti Bornemann

Hans-Ludger Schneider

Assessor Korti

Alexander Kluge

Director / Writer / Producer

Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus

Editor

Günther Hörmann

Director of Photography

Thomas Mauch

Director of Photography

Dagmar Klaiber

Assistant Director

Hansjörg Wicha

Sound Mixer

Maximiliane Mainka

Assistant Editor

Dietrich Lohmann

Assistant Camera

Media.

Details.

Release Date

August 29, 1968

Original Name

Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos

Status

Released

Running Time

1h 43m

Filming Locations

Nuremberg · Munich,

Genres

Drama

Last updated: 2025-05-22

This Movie Is About.

circus

Wiki.

Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed (German: Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos) is a 1968 West German film written and 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.