Black Clown

Black Clown

1994 · 95 min · Crime, Thriller

A little tightrope walker boy named Axel crashed in a circus, but an oriental psychic brings his body back to life. Karl, obsessed with the idea of creating an ideal order in the world, the master of the psychic, buried the corpse of an orphan instead of Axel, and began to teach the boy's body Russian and train for espionage in the service of the Wehrmacht. Axel became a German intelligence officer, a professional of the highest class and soon appeared in his "native" village under the guise of the grandson of the recently deceased Pelagia...

Directed by Boris Galkin · Written by Yelena Galkina

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