Freaks Out

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

Cast

Claudio Santamaria

as Fulvio

Aurora Giovinazzo

as Matilde

Pietro Castellitto

as Cencio

Giancarlo Martini

as Mario

Giorgio Tirabassi

as Israel

Max Mazzotta

as The Hunchback

Franz Rogowski

as Franz

Éric Godon

as Gus

Emilio De Marchi

as Wolf

Anna Tenta

as Irina

Reviews

MovieGuys

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 reject...

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