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People Who Travel (1938)

People Who Travel poster
Original title
Fahrendes Volk
Directed by
Jacques Feyder
Genre
drama film
Country
German Reich, France
Runtime
1h 46m
Rating
5.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A circus troupe travels across Germany, and their lives intertwine in love and hardship. The film follows the performers as they navigate personal dramas and romantic entanglements.

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What happens

Travelling People (German: Fahrendes Volk) is a 1938 German drama film directed by Jacques Feyder and starring Hans Albers, Françoise Rosay and Camilla Horn. It is a circus film. It was shot at the Bavaria Studios in Munich. A separate French-language version People Who Travel (Les gens du voyage) was also released. While it was also directed by Feyder and starred Rosay, the rest of the cast were different. It premiered in Hamburg on 1 July 1938 and then at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo on 18 July. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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