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DIABOLO'S WORKSHOP

By Jean ACHACHE

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Documentary - Completed 2008

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- ENGLISH, RUSSIAN
- Duration
- 52 mn
- Director(s)
- Jean ACHACHE
- Producer(s)
- Christophe AUDEGUIS (Bliss), Guy PÉCHARD (Bliss)
- Synopsis
- After his planetary success Snow Show that made him a star in the USA, Slava Polunin asked Terry Gilliam to join him to help him recreate an old show of his : Diabolo.
  It is a the genuine encounter of two geniuses, turning sometimes into a fight but always an adventure : on one side an American filmmaker and on the other side a Russian clown. They together experience the difficulty of making two creative worlds coexist on a stage, feeling always too small for them. Tension appears et evaporates around a glass of vodka, misunderstandings sap their motivations, anger rumbles like storms of frustration and finally explode into a tempest of laughter.
  We follow the first weeks of their collaboration up to Israel where the premiere of a unfinished show takes place…. But is the show really on stage?