SAWDUST AND TINSEL
Feb 12, 2019
2 minutes
JOSEF KREBS
the aging owner and ringmaster of an impoverished travelling circus, takes the troupe to his home town in order to visit his estranged wife and sons with the hope of returning to the safe, bourgeois family nest. In reaction, his jealous and —uses homeless players to explore the role of the artist in a society. Ruled by vanity and vulnerability, they face constant humiliation as they offer their gifts to a cruel public, suffer abuse from contemptuous state authorities, and tear at each other.
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