Cinema-Circus

1942 ComedyAnimation 4 minutes Directed by Leonid Amalrik

About Cinema-Circus

This four-minute Soyuzmultfilm cartoon opens on Adolf Hitler by way of a figure of Charlie Chaplin's Tramp, then mocks him in three short sketches.

Cast & crew

More about Cinema-Circus

Leonid Amalrik and Olga Khodataeva directed and wrote it, with Konstantin Gavryushin. The Russian title is Киноцирк.

Themes

  • wartime caricature
  • Hitler as a circus turn
  • Hitler
  • Chaplin's Tramp
  • three sketches

Music

Aleksey Aksyonov wrote the music.