
Death of the Flea Circus Director
With the help of his assistant Anja, Ottocaro Weiss intends to put the plague on stage: circumstances beyond his control and a lack of fresh talent have forced him to close down his flea circus. For Weiss, the plague means the «extinction of everything that makes life miserable and low and freedom along with it. Unbeknownst to him, he has won the support of a patron who is of the exact opposite opinion: for Johannes Wagner, the plague is an organising principle, and, aided by his agent Moosbrugger, he is able to smuggle a new number onto the programme. Whereas Ottocaro Weiss means to represent the plague theatrically, what appears on stage is the scientific reality of the rat-borne infestation.
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- Released
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- Language
- French
- based on play or musical
- plague
- bubonic plague
- flea circus
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France, Switzerland
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSan Francisco International Film Festival20 Oct 1974
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival - Critics' Week1 May 1974
- Theatrical19 Mar 1975
GermanyDE
- PremiereMannheim Film Festival1 Oct 1973
NetherlandsNL
- PremiereInternational Film Festival Rotterdam1 Mar 1974
PortugalPT
- PremiereFigueira da Foz Film Festival1 Sept 1974
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Death of the Flea Circus Director was released on 19 March 1975.
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