Feuerwerk (Feu d'artifice)

Title Feuerwerk (Feu d'artifice)
Release date
1954
Director
Kurt Hoffmann
Type
Couleur (Eastmancolor)
Format
Genre
Runtime
97
Importance du cirque
Sypnosis

In 1910, a traveling circus comes to a small German town. The director, known as Sacha Obolski, is manufacturer of garden gnomes Albert Oberholzer’s brother, vanished 20 years before. Born Alexander Oberholzer, the black sheep of the family is back to celebrate his brother’s birthday. The disconcerted petits bourgeois meet his charming wife Iduna, who sings a song in tribute to her father, a renowned clown. She turns the head of the brothers-in-law, honest husbands for that matter, which is bound to create conflicts…

Cast

Lilli Palmer, Karl Schönböck, Romy Schneider

Production company
N.D.F.-Produktion
Country
Thematic
Notes
Based on a play by Jürg Amstein & Erik Charell