Man on a Tightrope
It's true! The stranger-than-fiction story that screams with SUSPENSE!
DramaThrillercircusiron curtainczechoslovakiaanti-communismblack and whitedefectioncommunismcircus troupeescape plancold war eraescape from communism
A Cold War thriller about a circus owner's desperate bid to smuggle his entire troupe across the Iron Curtain, balancing suspense with the human bonds holding the group together.
The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.
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