Circus
60 %|May 25, 1936|Music, Comedy
An American circus performer finds herself the victim of racism after it is revealed that she's the mother of a mixed-race child. In the midst of the public scandal, she finds happiness, love, and refuge in the USSR.
Featured Crew
Grigori Aleksandrov
Director
Ilya Ilf
Screenplay
Isidor Simkov
Director
Grigori Aleksandrov
Writer
Georgi Grivtsov
Art Direction
Nikolai Timartsev
Sound Engineer
Isaak Dunayevsky
Original Music Composer
Vladimir Nilsky
Director of Photography
Cast
Lyubov Orlova
Marion Dixon
Vladimir Volodin
Ludvig
Sergei Stolyarov
Ivan Petrovich Martinov
Pavel Massalsky
Franz von Kneishitz
Lev Sverdlin
Cameo
Solomon Mikhoels
Cameo
Yevgeniya Melnikova
Rayechka
Fyodor Kurikhin
Captain Borneo
Sergei Antimonov
Shprekhshtalmejster (uncredited)
Pavel Geraga
Cameo
Vladimir Kandelaki
Cameo
Niki Otto
Chaplin
Emmanuil Geller
The Music Conductor
B. Karlin
Artist
Alfonse Lutz
Horseman
Nikolai Orlov
An Old Circus Actor
Aleksandra Panova
Cameo
Weyland Rodd Sr.
Cameo
M. Tsybulsky
Farmer
Aleksandr Komissarov
Shurik Skameykin
Lev Ivanov
The whistling hooligan (uncredited)