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SAWDUST AND TINSEL

Gycklarnas afton

Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1953
Drama
  • 9393 minutes

Synopsis

Aging, portly, traveling circus owner and ring master Albert Johansson is passing with his down-and-out troupe through a provincial town where his tobacco shop owner wife Agda lives with his children. Albert is tired of running and is yearning for the stability of a bourgeois life.

Synopsis

Aging, portly, traveling circus owner and ring master Albert Johansson is passing with his down-and-out troupe through a provincial town where his tobacco shop owner wife Agda lives with his children. Albert is tired of running and is yearning for the stability of a bourgeois life.