The life of Adrien Wettach, famous in the annals of the circus under the name of Grock, world famous Swiss clown. A series of images from Épinal, retracing the career of a European artist, within the framework of world history. Lots of children, wars, an eccentric Russian countess, Countess Barinoff, who grows old admiring the clown, and a very long quibble about a party wall, all serve to highlight the star's final number.
Adrien Wettach, aka 'Grock'
Countess Barinoff
Aunt Pauline
Italian child Alphonso
Mr. Durand
Madame Wettach
Adelaide, his daughter
Father Wattach
Adrian, young man
Adrien, child
Lord Peter
Kurt Heller
Jeannot
Wittzec
Roberto Wittez / Wetzel
Roberta
Fracassa
Partner of Grock / Antonek
Self
Spectator (uncredited)
17 Apr 1991
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.
10 Dec 1926
Céleste Noménoé, a provincial actor, comes to Paris for an inheritance. He also gets a part in a movie. The managers of a music-hall notice him. He takes the stage name of Grock.
01 Jan 1932
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
15 Dec 2023
A bumbling father attempts to improve his teenage son’s birthday after no one shows up to his party.
21 Aug 2019
A gang of clowns is hired by an unpopular king to serve as propagandists who fabricate positive rumors and stage miracles to improve his personal image.
06 Sep 2018
Alan is an anxious and unhappy man. Thanks to his work, his life has become more and more sad and miserable. A visit to the psychiatrist could be the solution to all his problems.
24 Jul 2015
A clown finds that his former lover is now involved with a woman, and engages in a mad, obsessive plot to rejoin him.
21 May 1923
Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acrobatics, derring-do, and farcical clowning. Several members of Eisenstein's troupe at the legendary "Proletkult" stage theatre in Moscow briefly appear in this little film.
09 Dec 1957
It's a story about two of the most famous russian personages. They become friends, and then go along on the path of glory in parallel.
17 Oct 2018
Renee spends her first night alone in her parents' new house. She begins to hear noises and unexplained things start happening. At first she believes it to be her friends playing a prank, but she will soon learn it is something more sinister.
01 Aug 1997
A lonely boy befriends a stray dog who has a natural talent for basketball and together they experience the highs and lows of life as their friendship remains solid through a series of escapades.
24 Nov 1989
A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name.
01 Aug 1955
After Clown Teddy lost his son, he lost his gift for laughter. He opened a joke shop and lives above the shop. His landlady has had a foster son since birth, and Teddy decides to raise the child, who always believed that Teddy was his father. When the mother suddenly appears five years later and wants her son, Teddy decides to run away with the child and goes back onstage with his son. Will the family catch up with them, or will the mother never get her son back?
18 Dec 1970
Raju faces many hurdles and disappointments in matters of the heart throughout his life. But as a clown in a circus, he tries to make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrows. Along the way, Raju loves and loses, but must always keep a smile on his face because, in the words of his circus manager, "The show must go on."
27 Nov 2022
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06 Apr 1934
Scenes from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera with Canio, the clown, introducing actors who are seen in pantomime while the operatic voices are heard off-screen. Canio discovers his wife has been unfaithful but carries on with his performance.
22 Dec 1924
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.
27 Apr 1928
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
14 Apr 1928
A despairing clown suffering a broken heart and a self-indulgent count who uncontrollably laughs learn to help each other with their problems, but both fall in love with the same young woman.
02 Apr 1993
Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.