Cirque du Soleil : Saltimbanco

Jan 1, 1997

0h 56m

★ 7.2

Overview

From the Italian 'saltare in banco' – which literally means 'to jump on a bench' – Saltimbanco explores the urban experience in all its myriad forms. Between whirlwind and lull, prowess and poetry, it takes spectators on an allegorical and acrobatic journey into the heart and soul of the modern city.

Genres

Documentary

Family

Music

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Cast

The Baron / Eddie / La Mort

René Bazinet

The Child

Anton Chelnokov

La Belle

Francine Poitras

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Dimitri A. Arnaoutov

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Ann Bernard

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Pawel Biegaj

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Witek Biegaj

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Martin Boisvert

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Jean-Paul Boun

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Jennifer Clément

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Andrea Conway

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Vincent Cotnoir

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5.4

The Circus: Premiere

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Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.

6.1

Toby Tyler or Ten Weeks with a Circus

Jan 21, 1960

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3.0

Going Bananas

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6.5

Swing High

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5.8

Bogus

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7.0

Dumbo

Oct 31, 1941

Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.

7.0

A Bug's Life

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On behalf of "oppressed bugs everywhere," an inventive ant named Flik hires a troupe of warrior bugs to defend his bustling colony from a horde of freeloading grasshoppers led by the evil-minded Hopper.

7.6

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7.8

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7.7

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7.8

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6.7

The Magic of Flight

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7.4

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus

Oct 12, 1996

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0.0

Counterparts

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Andrea and Krisztina Marics are 28-year-old identical twins with a teaching degree that have lived together since birth. They work together at a touring circus, doing joint artistic performances. After a long circus tour abroad, Andrea leaves the close relationship and ends their work together. She feels that she can succeed on her own. Krisztina still lives and works in the circus but struggles to find her place there without Andrea. After the winter tour, Krisztina has to decide if she stays at home with her sister or continues the life of a wanderer.

7.4

Cirque du Soleil: Kooza

Jan 1, 2008

The story of an innocent and charming clown who strives to find his own place in the world. KOOZA is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil. It combines two circus traditions - acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. Between strength and fragility, laughter and chills and turmoil and harmony. KOOZA is set in an electrify8ing and exotic visual world full of surprises, thrills, audacity and total involvement. filmed live in Toronto, Canada with 8 cameras in high definition.

6.8

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

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Errol Morris’s Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of four men, each driven to create eccentric worlds from their unique obsessions, all of which involve animals. There’s a lion tamer who shares his theories on the mental processes of wild animals; a topiary gardener who has devoted a lifetime to shaping bears and giraffes out of hedges and trees; a man fascinated with hairless mole rats; and an MIT scientist who has designed complex, autonomous robots that can crawl like bugs.

4.7

Dixiana

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A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.

7.1

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5.6

Pippi Longstocking

Aug 20, 1997

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