KULTURTAGE DECHOW: Charlie Chaplin "The Circus", USA 1928

Silent movie - comedy set to live music by the duo Salon Pernod

The Tramp is wrongly suspected of pickpocketing and chased by the police. While on the run, he bursts into a circus performance and unintentionally makes the audience laugh. The circus director then wants to hire him as a clown. But the director doesn't think he's any good as a clown. Because the Tramp never does what he is supposed to and can't be funny on command, he is only employed as a prop man. Due to the mishaps that happen to him, the clumsy tramp quickly becomes the circus's main attraction - without even realizing it. Meanwhile, he has fallen in love with the trick rider Merna and dreams of a future together. But then a tightrope walker appears... The audience laughs and suffers along - with every image and every sound.

Live music with own compositions for the film as well as arrangements of Nino Rota's film music by the duo Salon Pernod, Thomas Wittenbecher, accordion and Patrick Zörner, guitar.