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Starkiss: Circus Girls Of India

2003, Movie, NR, 77 mins

Starkiss: Circus Girls Of India: Review

The childhood fantasy of leaving home to join the circus is unmasked as a nightmare for impoverished young South-Asian girls in Dutch documentary filmmakers Chris Relleke and Jascha de Wilde's chilling expose. Founded in 1924, the Great Rayman Circus is among India's biggest and best-known traveling circuses, employing close to 300 trainers, maintenance workers and performers. Shockingly, nearly 50 of the troupe's artists are underage girls (some as young as six), many from d... read more leave a comment