A family of aerialists decides to go after the $250,000 prize being offered to any group that can execute a complicated trapeze maneuver. However, personal dramas and financial difficulties soon threaten to overtake the flyers' pursuit of the elusive quadruple somersault. The film received a Robert Award as the best Danish film of 1985.
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Karmen Atias as Miranda
Senta Berger as Nina Rosta
Warren Clarke as Arno
Erik Clausen as Horst Kupka
Ole Ernst as Erik
Erland Josephson as Oscar
Trevor Laird as Sepp
Mario David as Lazlo Hart
Jean-Marc Montel as Max
Pete Lee-Wilson as Mory Ventura
Margaretha Krook as Hildegarde Altenburg
Guy Godefroy as Jacques Gavin jr.
Nadeem Razaq Janjau as Mischa
Fred Gärtner as Heinz von Rosen
Jutta Richter-Haser as Gabriella
Ole Ernst as Festdeltager
Denmark 16 August 1985
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12 March 1943
A cobbler gets a job in a Circus as a janitor, recommended by the beautiful girl rider of the show. But later, he gets in trouble when he involves in dangerous acts, such as the trapeze.
01 December 1951
Bugs Bunny is hired to perform in Colonel Korny's Circus alongside Bruno the Magnificent, the Slobokian Acrobatic Bear, but Bruno doesn't want to share the limelight.
04 August 2001
The Chinese consider the lion a symbol of good luck, so it's a half-dragon, half-lion – a dralion – that is the symbol of the East-meets-West fusion of this performance in which 36 Chinese acrobats join the renowned Canadian troupe.
01 December 1959
Director George Sherman's 1959 circus drama stars Michael Callan as a cocky aerialist causing romantic problems under the Big Top.
27 February 1932
When Polly Fisher, a circus aerialist, is hurt while performing, she is taken to the house of a nearby minister, John Hartley.
06 December 1967
While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people.
05 July 1959
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
03 June 1947
A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murder.
25 June 1964
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind between his adopted daughter and her mother.
03 October 1928
Four orphans, raised by an aging clown, becomes a high wire act in a circus. Lost film.
28 October 1954
Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is injured.
05 May 2000
A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as swooping bird-like acrobats initially menace, then delight.
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The circus seen as a gaudy and glorious mirror of life. Director Anders Refn fills his cinemascope format to the brim with all the action and all the people that ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1985:
03 July 1985
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest.
24 August 1985
In a summer in Shonan village, Sumiko is the daughter of an important upper-class Shikishima family, she loves to paint pictures, is going through a cooling-off of an arranged marriage that did not work out.
29 August 1985
Close childhood friends Teresa (Nora Aunor) and Cholo (Tirso Cruz III) were separated from each other for a while.
01 January 1985
Filipino horror movie from 1985.
01 January 1985
Conceptual-structural film by Branko Karabatić exploring media and television.
31 December 1985
A look at the career of Oscar-winning cameraman Chris Menges. Filmed on location of 'Comfort and Joy'.
29 April 1985
A filmed version of drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs' one man show, "An Evening With Joe Bob Briggs," featuring stories, comedy and music, performed in front of a live audience.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1985 Crone Film Produktion.
