Harman Patil (Editor)

The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
6.8
/
10
1
Votes
Alchetron
6.8
1 Ratings
100
90
80
70
61
50
40
30
20
10
Rate This

Rate This

Directed by
  
Vladimir Bortko

Music by
  
Vladimir Dashkevich

Initial release
  
23 March 1998

Music director
  
Vladimir Dashkevich

Cast
  
Nikolai Karachentsov

6.7/10
IMDb

Starring
  
Nikolai Karachentsov

Edited by
  
Leda Semyonova

Director
  
Vladimir Bortko

Written by
  
Vladimir Bortko

Produced by
  
Aleksandr Golutva Igor Tolstunov

Cinematography
  
Sergei Lando Yevgeni Shermergor

Nominations
  
Nika Award for Best Music Score

Similar
  
Edinozhdy solgav, The Blonde Around the Corner, Afghan Breakdown, Heart of a Dog, The Idiot

The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone (Russian: Цирк сгорел, и клоуны разбежались Tsirk sgorel, i klouny razbezhalis) is a 1998 Russian drama film directed by Vladimir Bortko and starring Nikolai Karachentsov. It tells the story of a successful film director who is about turn 50 and struggles with financiers, his insane mother and a mysterious woman who tells him how meaningless his life is.

Contents

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. Vladimir Dashkevich was nominated for the Nika Award for Best Music.

    References

    The Circus Burned Down, and the Clowns Have Gone Wikipedia