6.5
Is Circus Maximus worth watching?
77
GreatGoodWatch scoreMostly, it's well received, with a GoodWatch score of 77 (IMDb 6.5).
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During World War II Carlotta, the circus owner maintains herself, her lover and her rather run-down circus-team by illegal man-smuggling. In the year of 1944, besides the usual refugees, she even has to take Professor Máté, the renown mathematician to the Yugoslavian partisans. The team is joined by Carlotta's psychotic son who has escaped from an asylum.
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- Géza von Radványi, Tamás Almási
- Written by
- Károly Makk, Géza von Radványi, Judit Máriássy
- Music by
- Szabolcs Fényes
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Facts
October 16, 1980 · 1 h 39 min · Violence, Disturbing Imagery
- Released
- October 16, 1980
- Runtime
- 1 h 39 min
- Content
- Violence, Disturbing Imagery
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Original language
- Hungarian
- Made in
- Germany, Hungary
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Will I feel good after watching Circus Maximus?
BleakHopeful
Probably not: the title analysis rates it 8 of 10 for bleakness and 7 for melancholy, against 2 for hopefulness.
Is Circus Maximus in English?
Hungarian
No, it was made in Hungarian.