"Freaks"
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Filmoteca de Catalunya Plaça Salvador Seguí 1-9, 08001 Barcelona

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A beautiful and conniving trapeze artist named Cleopatra seduces a carnival sideshow little person named Hans after learning of his large inheritance, much to the chagrin of Frieda, his fiancée, also a little person. Cleopatra also conspires with circus strongman Hercules to kill Hans and inherit his wealth. Meanwhile, other romances flourish among the sideshow performers: the Bearded Lady, who is in love with the Human Skeleton, gives birth to their daughter. The news is spread among the friends by the Stork Woman. Additionally, Violet, a conjoined twin whose sister Daisy is married to Roscoe, the stuttering circus clown, becomes engaged to the circus's owner.
Tod Browning's film Freaks (1932, US) popularized the term freak to designate anomaly, marginalization and strangeness, all the while defending that true monstrosity goes far beyond appearance. Despite its terrible reception by a society not accustomed to tolerating difference, it became a cult classic following its rediscovery at the Venice Festival thirty years later.
Film will be shown in original version with Catalan subtitles.
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