Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
	Film poster
Directed by	Alexander Kluge
Written by	Alexander Kluge
Starring	Hannelore Hoger
Release dates	September 1968 (Venice); 29 October 1968;
Running time	104 minutes
Country	West Germany
Language	German

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.^[1]

Cast

Hannelore Hoger as Leni Peickert
Sigi Graue as Manfred Peickert (as Siegfried Graue)
Alfred Edel [de] as Dr. Busch
Bernd Höltz as Herr von Lueptow
Eva Oertel as Gitti Bornemann
Kurt Jürgens as Mackensen, Dompteur
Gilbert Houcke as Houke, Dompteur
Wanda Bronska-Pampuch as Frau Saizewa
Herr Jobst as Impresario
Hans-Ludger Schneider as Assessor Korti
Klaus Schwarzkopf as Gerloff, Philologe

Awards

The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. The film was also selected as the West German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 41st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[2]

References

^ David Bordwell and Kriston Thompson, Film History: An Introduction, 2e (McGraw Hill, 2003), p. 573.
^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

External links

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed at IMDb

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[1] David Bordwell and Kriston Thompson, Film History: An Introduction, 2e (McGraw Hill, 2003), p. 573.

[2] Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

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v t e Alexander Kluge
Films directed	Yesterday Girl (1966) Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed (1968) Part-Time Work of a Domestic Slave (1973) In Danger and Deep Distress, the Middleway Spells Certain Death (1974) three segments in Germany in Autumn (1978) The Candidate (1980) The Power of Feelings [de] (1983) The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985)
Literature	"Anita G." (1962) The Battle (1964) Air Raid (1977)

v t e Venice Film Festival Golden Lion
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