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Truxa (1937)

Truxa poster
Directed by
Hans Heinz Zerlett
Genre
drama film
Country
Nazi Germany, Germany
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A circus performer navigates love and rivalry under the big top. The story follows her personal struggles and professional aspirations in a traveling circus troupe.

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What happens

Truxa is a 1937 German drama film directed by Hans H. Zerlett and starring La Jana, Hannes Stelzer, and Ernst Fritz Fürbringer. It is a Circus film, based on a novel by Heinrich Seiler. The film was released in the United States and was one of the most successful German films shown in America that year. It was remade in Britain the following year as Star of the Circus. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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