Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed
Artists in the Big Top: Perplexed 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, 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.
Cast
- Hannelore Hoger as Leni Peickert
- Sigi Graue as Manfred Peickert
- as Dr. Busch
- Bernd Höltz as Herr von Lueptow
- Eva Oertel as Gitti Bornemann
- Kurt Jürgens as Mackensen, Dompteur
- Gilbert Houcke as Houke, Dompteur
- Wanda Bronska-Pampuch as Frau Saizewa
- Herr Jobst as Impresario
- Hans-Ludger Schneider as Assessor Korti
- Klaus Schwarzkopf as Gerloff, Philologe