Ganh xiec rong / Travelling Circus
Director: Linh Viet
Stars: Thé Anh, Son Bac and Khuong Be
One
of the most acclaimed Vietnamese films of the 1980s, The Traveling
Circus won numerous international awards, including Grand Prix at
Fribourg Third world Film Festival, Audience Award at Uppsala (Sweden)
International Film Festival and First Prize at Madrid Women’s Film
Festival.
With obvious influences from Bergman, DeSica and Fellini,
director Viet Linh tells the bittersweet story of a small traveling
circus from Hanoi stopping in an impoverished ethnic minority village in
Vietnam’s central highlands. Through the eyes of a village youngster,
we witness the magic of the circus, and the naïve hope that illusion can
be transformed into reality. The Traveling Circus is an extremely
realistic, sensitive and moving film, that is rarely shown either in
Vietnam or abroad.
Country: Vietnam
Language: Vietnamese
Subtitles: English, French & German