We’re here to continue our little festival chat and represent another title In Competition for the Golden Lion statue, this year, at 67th Venice Film Festival.
Balada triste de trompeta or A Sad Trumpet Ballad is the movie that comes from Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia, and it’s already been described as the comedy that follows two circus clowns, but it’s definitely more than just a comedy….
Here’s the A Sad Trumpet Ballad synopsis: “…1937. The circus monkeys scream wildly inside their cage while, outside, men kill and die in another circus: the Spanish Civil War.
The Stupid Clown, recruited against his will by the Militia, ends up carrying out a bloodbath with a machete against the National soldiers while still wearing his costume.
And so starts this eventful adventure in which Javier and Sergio, two terrifyingly disfigured clowns, fight to the death for the ambiguous love of an acrobat during Franco’s reign.”
Director Alex de la Iglesia was in charge for a script as well, and movie stars Santiago Segura, Fernando Guillén Cuervo, Antonio de la Torre, Fran Perea, Sancho Gracia, Javier Botet, Raúl Arévalo, Carlos Areces, Joxean Bengoetxea, Terele Pávez, Manuel Tejada, Enrique Villén, Juana Cordero, Joaquín Climent and Luis Varela.
A Sad Trumpet Ballad/Balada triste de trompeta Poster
