Dark Circus

Dark Circus

2016 · 86 min · ★ 5.7 · Thriller, Fantasy

Johanna is just twenty years old but struggling with her boring and aimless existence. Disturbing visions start the day she gets fired from her job. Soon Johanna is carried off into a different world beneath the city where people live in a parallel universe full of darkness and magic rituals. The denizens of this world are inspired and guided by a mysterious woman, The Mistress. Drawn into her cult through an extravagant initiation ceremony, Johanna encounters fascinating characters: People like Simon, the collector, with whom she embarks on an obsessive affair. As Johanna plunges deeper into the occult her old world slowly collapses...

Directed by Julia Ostertag · Written by Julia Ostertag

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Angela Maria Romacker Johanna
Annika Strauss Assistant
Namjira As-Sefid Mistress
Florian Gysin Simon the collector
Nikolai Arnold Dandy
Louis Fleischauer Master of ceremony

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