Tsirk
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Cast & Crew
Grigori Aleksandrov
Lyubov Orlova
Evgenia Melnikova
Vladimir Volodin
Sergei Stoliarov
Pavel Massalsky
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Synopsis
American circus performer Marion Dixon is run out of the USA for giving birth to an interracial child. She moves to the Soviet Union where she finds people much more accepting and builds a new life for herself in a Soviet circus.
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Released in United States 1936
Released in United States August 1926
Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (The Other History of Soviet Cinema 1926-1968) August 2-12, 2000.
Released in United States 1936
The cameo appearance by Yiddish theater director Solomon Mikhoels was excised around 1948, after Stalin had him killed. The death of Mikhoels signaled the official supression of all Jewish theater and acting by Stalin's regime. Mikhoels' cameo has since been restored to the film.
Released in United States August 1926 (Shown at Locarno International Film Festival (The Other History of Soviet Cinema 1926-1968) August 2-12, 2000.)
