Documentary
Short dramatised documentary showing the ups and downs of daily life on a circus farm. “The only light comes from the flames of the funeral pyre that consumes a dead circus elephant shortly after its corpse has been unceremoniously dragged across a field by 50 carthorses.” (BFI)
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IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 1966
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IMDB 0 | May , 2019
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IMDB 0 | Jun , 1973
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IMDB 6.1 | Jun , 1959
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 2025
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