A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.A young trapeze artist must decide between her lust for Sergio, the Happy Clown, or her affection for Javier, the Sad Clown, both of whom are deeply disturbed.
- Awards
- 11 wins & 21 nominations
Alejandro Tejerías
- Motorista-fantasma
- (as Alejandro Tejería)
Sasha Di Bendetto
- Javier (Niño 1937)
- (as Sasha Di Bendetto)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAccording with Álex de la Iglesia, Raphael watched the movie before the public premieres, and he didn't like voice acting of the actor who played him. De la Iglesia offered him to dub himself, and finally is Raphael's voice which is heard in the movie.
- GoofsWhen Andres is arrested, he says "maderos" to the policemen, but this word was not yet used at this time. He shoould have said "grises" (grey) because this is the color of the police uniform - only years later would it become brown. ("Madero" is log or piece of wood, which is why people called policemen "maderos").
- ConnectionsFeatured in Half in the Bag: Robot and The Last Circus (2011)
- SoundtracksTitles
Vocals by Manuel Tallafé
Performed by 'Banda de cornetas de la Fundacion Julian Santos'
2015 Melliam Music
Featured review
The first reaction I had to this film was - "an overkill". So much gore and blood in a small love triangle story, seemed excessive. But my very next thought was, I must be missing something. And as I went over the perfectly designed gory details of the movie one more time in my mind I realized I was watching a surreal fable on the fate of Spain from the Spanish civil war onward. The only proof of that claim I can give here without adding a spoiler is the fact that the opening scene of the film takes place in 1937 while most of the story happens on 1973, but there's no logical base for such a big time gap, the only reason these two dates were chosen is because the second is the mirror image of the first, and they both fit into the historic background necessary for the story.
As a fable, we have all the right ingredients of a fable in, the characters may be slightly flat, since their symbolic value is more important than their personality but the actors make it work anyhow.
So if your stomach can take gore and blood in quantities that would suit a horror movie, and you're interested in an original point of view on the destiny of Spain in the 20th century - it's definitely worth seeing
As a fable, we have all the right ingredients of a fable in, the characters may be slightly flat, since their symbolic value is more important than their personality but the actors make it work anyhow.
So if your stomach can take gore and blood in quantities that would suit a horror movie, and you're interested in an original point of view on the destiny of Spain in the 20th century - it's definitely worth seeing
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official sites
- Language
- Also known as
- Ballad of the Sad Trumpet
- Filming locations
- Barrio El Partidor, Alcoy, Alicante, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain(as Madrid's suburbs, circus exteriors)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- €7,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $40,548
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,757
- Aug 21, 2011
- Gross worldwide
- $3,604,598
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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