The Circus Cavalcade | |
Music: | Isidro B. Maiztegui |
Editing: | Carlos Rinaldi |
Distributor: | Estudios San Miguel |
Runtime: | 91 minutes |
Country: | Argentina |
Language: | Spanish |
The Circus Cavalcade (Spanish; Castilian: '''La cabalgata del circo''') is an 1945 Argentine musical film directed and written by Mario Soffici with Eduardo Boneo and Francisco Madrid. The film was shot on black-and-white stock with a monaural soundtrack. It stars Libertad Lamarque and Hugo del Carril.
In 2022, it was selected as the 52nd greatest film of Argentine cinema in a poll organized by the specialized magazines La vida útil, Taipei and La tierra quema, which was presented at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival.[1]
The lives, loves and vicissitudes of a group of circus performers in the Argentine Pampas around the turn of the century are played out in this drama with songs.