Wanderzirkus

Filmstill Travelling Circus

Travelling Circus

Wanderzirkus
Angelika Andrees
Retrospective 2022
Documentary Film
GDR
1975
24 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
None

Rolling into the village: Circus Hein. Angelika Andrees is interested in the individual acts presented in the ring, but even more in what happens before and afterwards. Or what the audience look like from below, when various bottoms are squashed on the wooden benches. Sometimes there’s clacking and knocking, or the pattering of rain, and in the end, Bob Dylan sings. “Travelling Circus” was made when Andrees was still at the Babelsberg Film Academy. She experiments with different elements, switches tones and thus captures the moods crystallising around the travelling attraction. A portrait emerges, without commentary and with very few, short interview sequences.

Carolin Weidner

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Director
Angelika Andrees
Cinematographer
Julia Kunert
Editor
Manuela Hamann
Producer
Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen der DDR
Sound
Andreas Walter