The Merry Circus (1951)
Genre : Animation
Runtime : 12M
Director : Jiří Trnka
Writer : Jiří Trnka
Synopsis
Trnka brings to life a surrealist circus of tightrope-walking fish, musical monkeys, balancing bears, and high-flying acrobatics in this whimsical feat of cutout animation made in collaboration with leading Czech painters of the era.
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