# Inside the Soviet Circus

Behind the scenes at the Moscow Circus School, plus performance clips from several cities in the USSR. Performers include Oleg Popov (clown), The Cranes (aerial ballet), and Mikhail Bagdasaroff (animal trainer). Narrator: Theodore Bikel. Director: Miriam Birch. Broadcast recorded to VHS in 1988; digitized to Lagarith AVI and transcoded to H.264 MP4 in 2020.

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1988
- By: National Geographic
- Genres: Nature
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/Inside.the.Soviet.Circus)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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