Top Cast
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Lazar Ristovski
Caruso
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Iakov Kultiasov
Barbu
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Katharina Thalbach
Julie
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Oktay Özdemir
Marcel
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Birol Ünel
Birol
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Imogen Kogge
Polizistin
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Anna Thalbach
Julie
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Paulus Manker
Kardinal
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Imogen Kogge
Polizisti
Overview
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.
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