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28/10/2021 Adventure, Fantasy, Drama 2h 21m
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Overview

Four super-powered circus freaks find themselves trapped in war-torn Rome after their foster father is captured by the Nazis.

  1. Gabriele Mainetti

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Claudio Santamaria

    Fulvio

  2. Aurora Giovinazzo

    Matilde

  3. Pietro Castellitto

    Cencio

  4. Giancarlo Martini

    Mario

  5. Giorgio Tirabassi

    Israel

  6. Max Mazzotta

    The Hunchback

  7. Franz Rogowski

    Franz

  8. Éric Godon

    Gus

  9. Emilio De Marchi

    Wolf

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Reviews

A review by MovieGuys
Written by MovieGuys on 2022-08-19
Strangely stylish and inexplicably sentimental, with a humanist vibe. That's the feeling Freaks Out left me with.

There's a really nostalgic feel to this film. It captures a fading world of colourful carnivals and the dubiously named, freak shows, under threat from a Fascist ideology that rejects anyone who is "different".

Its underlying message is one of tolerance, forgiveness and acceptance, tempered by the need to protect the vulnerable from persecution.

Special effects are superb, the story's suitably off beat and affectionately zany and the action is polished.

An eccentric ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Italian

Budget
$12,000,000.00

Revenue
$3,279,079.00

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