A circus tamer's bride loves the trapeze artist swinging above him.
The tamer Nikita marries the girl he had once recruited into the circus but she loves a trapeze artist.
Direction
Christian-Jaque stages jealousy like a lion pacing its cage.
Cinematography
1930s circus lighting that makes sawdust look like velvet.
Director
Christian-Jaque
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Madeleine Ozeray was Belgium's gift to French cinema, and this was her breakout before she became a stage legend.
Pre-World War II French circus films obsessed with dangerous romance under canvas — pure escapism before darkness fell.
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