Query: Films that are documentaries about circus performers or that were shot in Armenia
Domain: films
Relevant documents:
Swing High
Day at the Circus (1901 film)
High Grass Circus
Cat Dancers
Journey to Ararat
Balancing Acts
North-South
Super Mother 2
Without a Net (film)
The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia
Wild Women: Gentle Beasts
Evidence from documents: Swing High: Films that are documentaries about circus performers: a 1932 American Pre-Code short documentary film
about circus performers: The film documents The Flying Codonas, a family of flying trapeze artists.
Day at the Circus (1901 film): It depicts a parade of the Great Forepaugh and Sells Bros. Combined Circus followed by a horse race in the tent.
High Grass Circus: a 1976 National Film Board of Canada documentary film co-directed by Tony Ianzelo and Torben Schioler, exploring life in the Royal Brothers' traveling circus.
Cat Dancers: '''''Cat Dancers''''' is a 2007 HBO documentary film about Ron Holiday (his stage name; real name Ron Guay) and his wife Joy Holiday (her stage name; married name Doris Guay; birth name Doris Gagnon) and their jaguar, panther and tiger show.
Journey to Ararat: travels to Armenia
Balancing Acts: '''''Balancing Acts''''' is a 2005 documentary film by Donna Schatz that chronicles the lives of Chinese acrobat Man-Fong Tong and his wife Magda Schweitzer, a Jewish acrobat from Budapest, Hungary. The two met in Europe on the eve of World War II. They were both at the peak of their careers, performing at the Moulin Rouge and Cirque Medrano, and alongside acts such as Maurice Chevalier and Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson. While their careers were full of success, the spread of Nazism brought them great hardships. Their marriage saw the trials of wartime Europe, post-war poverty, the birth of two sons, and a difficult ten-year separation from one another.
Director Donna Schatz's ''Balancing Acts'' pairs archival footage and photographs of Magda Schweitzer and Man-Fong Tong's acts with private home videos and interviews to tell their life stories. Magda and Man-Fong both left their families at age sixteen to pursue careers in show business. While tenacious Magda and her partner Joe Mady - who was at least a foot taller - came up with a slapstick routine, Man-Fong teamed up with two other male acrobats, and, dressed in sharp suits with slicked back hair, the three performed their unique balancing act without ever breaking a sweat.
North-South: '''''North-South''''' () or '''''Four Buddies and the Bride''''' is an Armenian comedy directed by Davit Babakhanyan and Vazgen Muradyan, starring Diana Malenko, Sona Shahgeldyan and David Tovmasyan.
Super Mother 2: '''''Super Mother 2''''' () is an Armenian adventure comedy film written by Robert Martirosyan and Arman Marutyan and directed by Arman Marutyan and Vahagn Khachatryan. The film is a sequel to the 2015 film Super Mother and mostly has the same cast. The film was completed in 2017 and was available in Armenian theaters from October 5, 2017. In the Republic of Artsakh, the film premiered on October 8. The official trailer was uploaded by Kargin Studio to YouTube on September 16, 2017. Marutyan has also mentioned that the second movie is approximately twice more expensive than the first one. This is also so far Hayk Marutyan's last acting role in a movie, as he would go on to become the Mayor of Yerevan next year.
Without a Net (film): Films that are documentaries: '''''Without a Net''''' is a 2012 American documentary film directed by Kelly J Richardson.
about circus performers: In an abandoned parking lot in a Rio de Janeiro favela sits a circus tent—an incongruous sight, but no more unusual than its motley crew of young performers, searching for a life apart from the drug-related violence around them.
The Last Tightrope Dancer in Armenia: Best Armenian Film
Wild Women: Gentle Beasts: about circus performers: All of them work in a circus and tame tigers (Zander), lions (Bauer and Kouta) and bears (Takshantova).
Films that are documentaries: '''''Wild Women: Gentle Beasts''''' is a feature documentary by Swiss director Anka Schmid, released in 2015.