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Cirque du Soleil: Journey of Man

  • May 2000
  • 39mins

  • Drama
  • Family
  • Music
  • Fantasy
  • Directed by

    Keith Melton,

    Mitchell Cannold,

    Starring

    Ian McKellen,

    Nicky Dewhurst,

    Brian Dewhurst ,

    Anait Karagyezyan

    ...

    A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as swooping bird-like acrobats initially menace, then delight. As an adolescent, he enters a desert, where a man spins a large cube of metal tubing. He leaves his instinct-guides behind, and enters a garden where two statues dance in a pond. As he watches their sensual acrobatics of love, he becomes a man. He is offered wealth (represented by a golden hat) by a devil figure. In a richly decorated room, a scruffy troupe of a dozen acrobats and a little girl reawaken the old man's youthful nature and love.