The Great Mystical Circus (2018)

Follows a century in the lives of the Knieps, an Austrian family of circus owners.

Director:

Carlos Diegues

Writers:

Carlos Diegues, George Moura (screenplay)

Stars:

Vincent Cassel, Nuno Lopes, Albano Jerónimo

10 wins & 16 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Vincent Cassel	...	Jean-Paul
Nuno Lopes	...	Coriolano
Albano Jerónimo	...	The Lion Tamer
Dawid Ogrodnik	...	Ludwig
Antonio de la Cruz	...	Rodolfo
Jesuíta Barbosa	...	Celavi
Mariana Ximenes	...	Margarete
Luísa Cruz	...	Sra.Kieps
Antônio Fagundes	...	Dr. Frederico
Rafael Lozano	...	Fred
Igor Regalla	...	Belisco
Bruna Linzmeyer	...	Beatriz
Catherine Mouchet	...	Imperatriz
Juliano Cazarré	...	Oto
Cecília Henriques	...	Mulher Circense

Storyline

The story of five generations of the Austrian-Brazilian Knieps family, from the inauguration of their family-owned Great Mystical Circus in the 1910s up to the early 21st century, following both the family and the circus from their prime through to their decadence.

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Plot Keywords:

circus | female nudity | female frontal nudity | traveling circus | male frontal nudity | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Did You Know?

Trivia

Carlos Diegues's first feature film in 12 years.

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Soundtracks

A História de Lily Braun
Written by Edu Lobo & Chico Buarque
Performed by Luiza Mariani

User Reviews

C'est La Vie

A perfectly told story about live. There is a few movies like this, which, on the one hand, give you a possibility to think of a serious questions, and on the other, to get pleasure from beautiful pucture and music. It is very nice also that director selected an original "prototype" to make movie movie about (i mean "circo"). Started as a classical drama about past times, after 1.5 hours it transforms into black mirror of the contemporary reality saying us that this is a hard time, this is a time of culture decline of extremely new kind, but there is not anything lost, there were always difficult periods in our personal lives and in live of the entire society in general, however we continue to lighting from inside and always can make our dreams come true as well as make the world better. Surely, when were there easy times for us? Two world wars, several economic criseses, several revolutions around the world, but "c'est la vie", the "circo" continues to live and even when it wil seem like died, it will continue to live. It is a movie about how love and passion turns into hate and feelingness after years. How people are being changed after ages, on the other side, and how similarly they spend their lives in their desire to become a little happier, how similarly they die and how strongly they want to not to lost chance to leave after themselves a new generation which will continue the tryings of making this world better. And it is not important if they will not able to do this, because there is no another option - it is the only one thing we can do - try to make the world a little better, as we see it, in other words, continue the life, in other case there is no possibility to exist as a human. And as we can see, there is no possibility to make something without a pain - Chuck Palahniuk wrote that "Great writers are great disabled" - because only with the costs of the big pain it is possible to create a big invention. Always it seems like the next war will be the last, but it is not so, because there always will be needed to "make the circus better" so the next generations will always need to suffer, not only we or those who were before us. And it is not possible to say that it is good or bad just "C'est La Vie".

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Page Official page at co-production company Globo Filmes

Country:

Brazil Portugal France

Language:

Portuguese

Release Date:

22 August 2018 (France)

Also Known As:

The Great Mystical Circus

Filming Locations:

Herdade da Barroca d'Alva, Alcochete, Portugal

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$54,926

Company Credits

Production Co:

Fado Filmes, Globo Filmes, Luz Mágica Produções

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Color:

Color (ACES)

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1