Polski opis
Produkcja: USA
Gatunek: Dramat, Horror
Reżyseria: Tod Browning
Scenariusz: Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins, Al Boasberg, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon,
Charles MacArthur, Edgar Allan Woolf
Zdjęcia: Merritt B. Gerstad
Muzyka: G.A. Burns
Ocena na imdb.com: 7.9/10 (głosów: 18,735)
Ocena na filmweb.pl: 7.8/10 (głosów: 2,456)
Ograniczenia wiekowe: R
Na podstawie: opowiadania "Spurs" Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins
Opis:
Pewna grupa cyrkowa składa się z niezwykłych cyrkowców - ludzi o zdeformowanych ciałach, którzy np. nie mają nóg, rąk czy są karłami. Wszyscy jednak godzą się na swój los i starają się żyć tak, jak normalni ludzie. Akrobatka Cleopatra poślubia karła Hansa, by go otruć, okraść z majątku i następnie uciec ze swoim kochankiem. Trupa cyrkowców, dowiedziawszy się o podstępnym planie kobiety, postanawia się zemścić.
Źródło: filmweb.pl
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English description
Country: USA
Genre: Drama, Horror
Directed by: Tod Browning
Writing credits: Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins, Al Boasberg, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon,
Charles MacArthur, Edgar Allan Woolf
Director of photography: Merritt B. Gerstad
Music by: G.A. Burns
imdb.com user rating: 7.9/10 (votes: 18,735)
filmweb.pl user rating: 7.8/10 (votes: 2,456)
Certification: R
Based on: story "Spurs" by Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins
Plot Summary:
The genesis of MGM's Freaks was a magazine piece by Ted Robbins titled Spurs. The story involved a terrible revenge enacted by a mean-spirited circus midget upon his normal-sized wife. In adapting Spurs for the screen, writers Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, Edgar Allan Wolf, and Al Boasberg retained the circus setting and the little man-big woman wedding, all the while de-vilifying the midget and transforming the woman into the true "heavy" of the piece. German "little person" Harry Earles plays Hans, who falls in love with long-legged trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova). Discovering that Hans is heir to a fortune, Cleopatra inveigles him into a marriage, all the while planning to bump off her new husband and run away with brutish strongman Hercules (Henry Victor). What she doesn't reckon with is the code of honor among circus freaks: "offend one, offend them all." What set this film apart from director Tod Browning's earlier efforts was the fact that genuine circus and carnival sideshow performers were cast as the freaks: Harry Earles and his equally diminutive sister Daisy, Siamese twins Violet and Daisy Hilton, legless Johnny Eck, armless-legless Randian (who rolls cigarettes with his teeth), androgynous Josephine-Joseph, "pinheads" Schlitzie, Elvira, Jennie Lee Snow, and so on. Upon its initial release, Freaks was greeted with such revulsion from movie-house audiences that MGM spent the next 30 years distancing themselves as far from the project as possible. For many years available only in a truncated reissue version titled Nature's Mistakes, Freaks was eventually restored to its original release print.
Source: allmovie.com
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