The Great Mystical Circus

The story of five generations of the same circus family, from the grand opening of the Great Mystical Circus in 1910 to the present day. Celavi, the master of ceremonies that never ages, shows the adventures and loves of the Knieps, from heyday to decadence.

Carlos Diegues

romance, drama / 105’ / 2018

In co-production with Luz Mágica, Globo Filmes (Brasil) and Milonga Produções (França).

  • Platinum Awards | 2019
    Best Original Music
    Best Art Direction

    CinEuphoria Awards | 2020
    Best Makeup
    Best Costume Designer (Kika Lopes)
    Best Art Direction (Artur Pinheiro)
    Best Original Music (Edu Lobo and Chico Buarque)

    Guadalajara International Film Festival (Ibero-American) | 2019
    Best Cinematography (Carlos Diegues)

    ABC Cinematography | 2019
    Best sound

    Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
    Best Film
    Best Editing (Mair Tavares and Daniel Garcia)
    Best Original Soundtrack (Edu Lobo)
    Best Sound (Christophe Penchenat, Simone Petrillo and Emmanuel Croset)

    Malaga Spanish Film Festival | 2019
    Best Ibero-American Film

    Guarani Prize | 2019
    Best Art Direction (Artur Pinheiro)
    Best Makeup and Hair (Catherine Leblanc and Emmanuelle Fèvre)
    Best Music (Edu lobo)

  • Sophia Awards | 2020
    Best Art Direction (Artur Pinheiro)

    ABC Cinematography | 2019
    Best Feature Film Photography (Gustavo Hadba)
    Best Art Direction (Artur Pinheiro)

    Cinema Brazil Grand Prize | 2019
    Best Cinematography (Gustavo Hadba)
    Best Adapted Screenplay (Carlos Diegues and George Moura)
    Best Art Direction (Artur Pinheiro)
    Best Costume Design (Kika Lopes)
    Best Makeup and Hair (Catherine Leblanc and Emmanuelle Fèvre)
    Best Visual Effects (Marcelo Siqueira and Thierry Delobel)

    Guarini Prize | 2019
    Best Costume Design (Kika Lopes)

  • Sophia Awards | 2022
    ABC Cinematography | 2019
    Cinema Brazil Grand Prize | 2019 Guarini Prize | 2019
    Platinum Awards | 2019
    CinEuphoria Awards | 2020
    Guadalajara International Film Festival (Ibero-American) | 2019
    Malaga Spanish Film Festival | 2019
    Poland | Discoveries Section, Warsaw International Film Festival
    Brazil | Closing Film - Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
    Brazil | Opening Film - 46th Gramado Film Festival
    Spain | Official Competition - 22nd Malaga Festival
    47th Belgrade International Film Festival (SRV)
    Belgium | Official Competition - 34th Festival International du Films De Mons
    Lima Film Festival (PER)
    International Film Fine Arts Festival (PR)
    Luxembourg | Fortnight of Portuguese Cinema in Luxembourg
    Cuba | Festival International de Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano de La Habana
    Danish Film Institute (DEN)
    Poland | Off Camera Film Festival

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PRODUCTION CREDITS

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PRODUCTION CREDITS 〰️

SCRIPT

George Moura, Carlos Diegues

PHOTOGRAPHY

PRODUCTION DESIGN

Gustavo Hadba

Artur Pinheiro

COSTUME DESIGN

Kika Lopes

Renata Almeida Magalhães

DIRECTION

PRODUCTION

Carlos Diegues

Luís Galvão Teles, Jean-Pierre Gardelli, Danielle Ayrolles

CO-PRODUCTION

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION

Ana Murgel, João Fonseca

Thierry Delobel, Marcelo Siqueira

EDITING

VFX

SOUND

Patricia Saramago

Christiphe Penchenat

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

Chico Buarque e Edu Lobo

Jesuíta Barbosa, Vincent Cassel, Mariana Ximenes, Bruna Linzmeyer, Catherine Mouchet, Antonio Fagundes, Juliano Cazarré,
David Ogrodnik, Nuno Lopes

WITH

Carlos (Cacá) Diegues

While still a student, Cacá Diegues founded a film club together with future filmmakers David Neves and Arnaldo Jabor. He directed the newspaper "O Metropolitano". He was a member of the Centro Popular de Cultura, linked to the National Student's Union.

In the early sixties, Cacá joined young filmmakers Glauber Rocha, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Walter Lima Jr, among others, and started the movement known as "Cinema Novo", that intended to change the history of cinema by portraying social and political issues.

After releasing Fuga and Brasília in 1961, Cacá released, with the collaboration of David Neves and Affonso Beato, the short film Domingo, one of the pioneering films of Cinema Novo.

In 1962, Cacá made Escola de Samba Alegria de Viver, one of the documentaries of Cinco Vezes Favela, that brought together five short films produced by the UNE, considered one of the fundamental works for the new cinema movement.