The Circle (Widescreen)
Knowing is good. Knowing everything is better.
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 6, 2007
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Arts Alliance Amer
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Henry Czerny, Angela Bettis & Scott Cohen | |
Performer: | David Proval | |
Directed by | Yuri Zeltser | |
Screenwriting by | Yuri Zeltser |
Entertainment Reviews:
Stefan Haupt beautifully re-creates the enduring love story between two members, French-literature teacher Ernst Ostertag and hairdresser/drag queen Röbi Rapp, that survived the stresses of secrecy and homophobia of the 1950s.
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Georgia Straight
Rating: 3/4 --
Stefan Haupt's conscientious and engaging film makes clear right off the bat that, no, there was no place in Europe that was a gay utopia in this period and that even the most progressive-minded of societies had their growing pains.
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RogerEbert.com
Rating: 3/5 --
It's not exactly Oscar-worthy drama, but you'll feel the injustice of people forced to hide their true selves.
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Time Out
The Circle does a great job of taking us back to a more repressive time in gay history (which continues in some areas of the world to this very day) - so much so that it's infuriating to watch at times.
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Gay Essential
Rating: 3/5 --
Though told in a somewhat stagey, stop-and-start manner, Haupt's film revives a little-known but important part of LGBT history.
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Montreal Gazette
Rating: 3/5 --
The early days of gay rights are lovingly, clunkily presented in director Stefan Haupt's docudrama about Swiss gay magazine the Circle.
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Guardian
Rating: 4/5 --
The Circle ... offers the best of both worlds, a perfect marriage of marvellous historical drama and moving testimony.
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Irish Times
Product Description:
Writer/director Yuri Zeltser infuses much-needed experimentation into the tired suspense genre with his innovative frightfest THE CIRCLE. Filmed in one continuous, unedited take à la Alfred Hitchcock's ROPE, THE CIRCLE follows a desperate housewife (the always superb Angela Bettis, MAY, SICK GIRL) as she attempts to persuade a ruthless mobster to call off a hit against her husband.