Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man

May 5, 2000

0h 39m

★ 7.1

Overview

A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as swooping bird-like acrobats initially menace, then delight. As an adolescent, he enters a desert, where a man spins a large cube of metal tubing. He leaves his instinct-guides behind, and enters a garden where two statues dance in a pond. As he watches their sensual acrobatics of love, he becomes a man. He is offered wealth (represented by a golden hat) by a devil figure. In a richly decorated room, a scruffy troupe of a dozen acrobats and a little girl reawaken the old man's youthful nature and love.

Genres

Drama

Family

Music

Fantasy

Production Companies

Cirque du Soleil Images

Motion International

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Cast

Narrator (voice)

Ian McKellen

Young Man

Nicky Dewhurst

Old Man

Brian Dewhurst

Vagabond Girl

Anait Karagyezyan

Youth

Chris Van Wagenen

Infant / Child

Cully Smoller

Man

Kenny Raskin

Cube Act

Mikhail Matorin

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