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Released
1970 · FILM

The Clowns

Directed by
Runtime
93 min
Language
IT
TV MovieComedy

Synopsis

Fellini explores his deep fascination with clowns and the world of the circus by first recounting a childhood memory of a circus arriving near his home. He then joins his crew and travels from Italy to Paris in search of the last great European clowns still performing in those countries. Along the way, he also meets Anita Ekberg, who is attempting to buy a panther from a circus.

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Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Ruggero MastroianniShot by Dario Di PalmaScored by Nino Rota

Also known as

  • Die Clownsde
  • The Clownsen
  • Les Clownsfr

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