Saltimbanco - Cirque Du Soleil
- Release Information
- December 23, 1994
- TV CBC
- Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
- Budget
- Budget: $533,906
- Distributors
Production Details
- Executive Producer
- Hélène Dufresne
- Hélène Dufresne
- Hélène Dufresne
- Hélène Dufresne
- Hélène Dufresne
- Hélène Dufresne
- Director
- Jacques Payette
- Jacques Payette
- Franco Dragone
- Director of Photography
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Sylvain Brault
- Writer
- Jacques Payette
- Franco Dragone
- Editor
- Vidal Béïque
- Vidal Béïque
- Vidal Béïque
- Vidal Béïque
- Vidal Béïque
- Vidal Béïque
- Vidal Béïque
- Vidal Béïque
- Vidal Béïque
- Vidal Béïque
A series of small allegorical pictures are used to illustrate the Cirque du Soleil performance, Saltimbanco, which in its own way tells about the origins of humans. Like every human being, the Cirque’s characters are born without clothing and then put on various fabrics and colours as they adapt to their environment. Soon, they will divide up into a variety of social types, all united within the Baroques family, the centre of the troupe making up the Cirque. This film is both a documentary of an extraordinary show and a fable about our civilization’s contradictions.
Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)