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Man on a Tightrope

It's true! The stranger-than-fiction story that screams with SUSPENSE!

6.6(36)19531h 45m2

The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.

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Released
Budget
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Box office
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Language
English
  • circus
  • iron curtain
  • czechoslovakia
  • anti-communism
  • black and white
  • defection
  • communism
  • circus troupe
  • escape plan
  • cold war era
  • escape from communism

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Behind the camera

Director

Elia Kazan

Produced in

United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNRLos Angeles, California1 Apr 1953
    • TheatricalNR4 Jun 1953
  • United KingdomGB

    • TheatricalLondon21 May 1953

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Man on a Tightrope was released on 21 May 1953.

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