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Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (1972)

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus poster
Directed by
Ian MacNaughton
Genre
German television comedy
Country
West Germany
Length
1 season, 2 episodes
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 13 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a pair of German television specials from Monty Python. The episodes feature the troupe's signature absurd sketches and comedy routines, shot on location in Bavaria. One episode was performed in German, the other in English and later dubbed.

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What happens

Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus (Monty Python's Flying Circus) is a pair of 45-minute Monty Python German television comedy specials produced by WDR for West German television. The two episodes were respectively first broadcast in January and December 1972 and were shot entirely on film and mostly on location in Bavaria, with the first episode recorded in German and the second recorded in English and then dubbed into German. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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