The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone
1998 Russian film
- 23 March 1998 (1998-03-23)
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The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone (Russian: Цирк сгорел, и клоуны разбежались Tsirk sgorel, i klouny razbezhalis) is a 1998 Russian fantasy drama film directed by Vladimir Bortko and starring Nikolai Karachentsov. It tells the story of a successful film director who is about to turn 50 and struggles with financiers, his insane mother and a mysterious woman who tells him how meaningless his life is.
Cast
- Nikolai Karachentsov as Nikolai Khudokormov
- Tanya Yu as Stranger
- Zinaida Sharko as Nikolai's Mother
- Nina Ruslanova as Toma
- Maria Shukshina as Lena
- Tatyana Vasilyeva as Margarita
- Kseniya Kachalina as Alya
- Sergey Dreyden as Aleksei
- Pyotr Zaychenko as Igor
- Rudolf Furmanov as Artyom
- Yury Kuznetsov as cossack
Accolades
Zinaida Sharko won the Best Actress award at the 1998 Open Russian Film Festival in Sochi.[1] Vladimir Dashkevich was nominated for the Nika Award for Best Music.[2]
References
External links
- The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone at IMDb
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Directorial works of Vladimir Bortko
- My Father Is an Idealist (1980)
- The Blonde Around the Corner (1984)
- Once Lied (1987)
- Afghan Breakdown (1991)
- Good Luck, Gentlemen (1992)
- The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone (1998)
- Taras Bulba (2009)
- Heart of a Dog (1988)
- The Idiot (2003)
- The Master and Margarita (2005)
- Peter the Great: The Testament (2011)
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