Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed

Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Film poster
Directed byAlexander Kluge
Written byAlexander Kluge
StarringHannelore Hoger
Release dates
  • September 1968 (1968-09) (Venice)
  • 29 October 1968 (1968-10-29)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryWest Germany
LanguageGerman

Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed (German: Die Artisten in der Zirkuskuppel: Ratlos) is a 1968 West German film written and directed by Alexander Kluge. The film is made in a collage style, featuring newsreels and quotations from philosophers alongside the story of a failing circus whose owner, Leni (Hannelore Hoger), must decide whether her dream of a new kind of circus is too optimistic. The film is a symbolic representation of Kluge's own frustrations in trying to help stimulate the New German Cinema movement.

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