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directed and produced by Julia Ostertag. Release 09/2016 - 89min.
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Struggling with her aimless existence, a young woman is taken to a parallel universe full of bizarre characters and occult rituals.
Dark Circus is a story of transformation, a trip to the inner self, from deepest desires to darkest nightmares.
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The Storyline
Johanna is just twenty years old but struggling with her boring and aimless existence. Disturbing visions start the day she gets fired from her job.
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Soon Johanna is carried off into a different world beneath the city where people live in a parallel universe full of darkness and magic rituals. The denizens of this world are inspired and guided by a mysterious woman, The Mistress.
Drawn into her cult through an extravagant initiation ceremony,
Johanna encounters fascinating characters:
People like Simon, the collector, with whom she embarks on an obsessive affair.
As Johanna plunges deeper into the occult her old world slowly collapses...
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» BUTFilmFestival
» L'Étrange Festival
» Pornfilmfestival Berlin
Cast
Angela Maria Romacker
- Johanna -
» Namjira As-Sefid
- Mistress -
Florian Gysin
- Simon the collector -
» Annika Strauss
- Assistant -
» Nikolai Arnold
- Dandy -
» Louis Fleischauer
- Master of Ceremony -
© Stills by
Benjamin Lippke
Bellocq, J.M Noack
Christoph Hüttner
Benjamin Lippke
Bellocq, J.M Noack
Christoph Hüttner