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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaA Czech circus owner and clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the Iron Curtain.A Czech circus owner and clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the Iron Curtain.A Czech circus owner and clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the Iron Curtain.
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- 1 premio ganado en total
Alexander D'Arcy
- Rudolph
- (as Alex D'Arcy)
Peter Beauvais
- Secret Police Captain
- (sin créditos)
Mme. Brumbach
- Mme. Cernik
- (sin créditos)
Willy Castello
- Captain
- (sin créditos)
Gert Fröbe
- Police Agent
- (sin créditos)
Philip Kenneally
- The Sergeant
- (sin créditos)
Edelweiß Malchin
- Konradine
- (sin créditos)
- Dirección
- Guionistas
- Todo el elenco y el equipo
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Argumento
¿Sabías que…?
- TriviaKarel Cernik mentions the train that broke through the Czech border into West Germany. That happened on September 11, 1951.
- ErroresWhen Fredric March is being interrogated, the inkwell in front of him is uncovered, when the camera switches between him and his interrogator, the inkwell's cover is on.
- ConexionesFeatured in TCM Guest Programmer: Dana Delaney (2021)
- Bandas sonorasThe Moldau
(uncredited)
from "Ma Vlast (My Country)"
Music by Bedrich Smetana
Arranged by Franz Waxman and Earle Hagen
Played during circus sequences by a band and as background music by the orchestra several times, during the opening credits as a circus march, and in the film's final musical cue by the upper strings over the circus march.
Opinión destacada
Sleeper classics are rare. Esthetics do not change, but politics do. This movie has a political message -- that communism is horrible, and that life under communism is bare existence. That was not enough for the McCarthy Era, and this movie falls short of the standard anti-communist diatribe of its kind. The view of someone like Vaclav Havel that communism was mere degradation of people and the imposition of an absurd order was not "hard-line" enough for the McCarthy Era.
This movie shows a more subtle critique of communism than the usual apocalyptic view of saber-rattling generals and madman tyrants. Czechoslovakia could have been the shopfront for communism because it wasn't as ravaged by World War II as were some other countries, and the Soviets didn't treat it as a conquered province grafted onto its empire. The country was prosperous before World War II and had a democratic government for twenty years after World War I. Even in Czechoslovakia, the communists imposed one degradation after another upon the people while promoting itself with demagogic rhetoric that communism was the desire of the working man -- except that nobody had the right to say "no" anymore. The communists nationalized Cernik's circus, only to pay him a very generous salary as compensation as a manager of a state enterprise; then they made the money worthless through currency "reforms" that pauperized all but the communists and enriched the communists. Sudden horror and slow degradation lead to the same misery, only at different rates.
Politics aside, this is a good adventure film with some comic elements as the circus crew fights among itself to seek escape from the madhouse (note that Milos Forman said that his image of an asylum for the insane was much like his native Czechoslovakia in comments on "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Too subtle for the 1950's, it got lost. In the cable-TV era "movie archive" channels try out some lost movies and occasionally find a gem. This one is a gem.
This movie shows a more subtle critique of communism than the usual apocalyptic view of saber-rattling generals and madman tyrants. Czechoslovakia could have been the shopfront for communism because it wasn't as ravaged by World War II as were some other countries, and the Soviets didn't treat it as a conquered province grafted onto its empire. The country was prosperous before World War II and had a democratic government for twenty years after World War I. Even in Czechoslovakia, the communists imposed one degradation after another upon the people while promoting itself with demagogic rhetoric that communism was the desire of the working man -- except that nobody had the right to say "no" anymore. The communists nationalized Cernik's circus, only to pay him a very generous salary as compensation as a manager of a state enterprise; then they made the money worthless through currency "reforms" that pauperized all but the communists and enriched the communists. Sudden horror and slow degradation lead to the same misery, only at different rates.
Politics aside, this is a good adventure film with some comic elements as the circus crew fights among itself to seek escape from the madhouse (note that Milos Forman said that his image of an asylum for the insane was much like his native Czechoslovakia in comments on "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Too subtle for the 1950's, it got lost. In the cable-TV era "movie archive" channels try out some lost movies and occasionally find a gem. This one is a gem.
- brower8
- 23 jul 2003
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- Fecha de lanzamiento
- Países de origen
- Idiomas
- También se conoce como
- Man on a Tightrope
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- Presupuesto
- USD 1,200,000 (estimado)
- Tiempo de ejecución1 hora 45 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1
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