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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 42 m

Summary Zurich: 1958. The bashful teacher Ernst Ostertag and the German cabaret artist Robi Rapp get to know one another in the Swiss underground organization called Der Kreis (The Circle). As the two dissimilar men defend their love, they witness the heyday and decline of this Europe-wide pioneering organization for gay emancipation. [Wolfe Rel...

Directed By: Stefan Haupt

Written By: Christian Felix, Ivan Madeo, Urs Frey, Stefan Haupt

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 42 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 42 m

The Circle

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
67
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary Zurich: 1958. The bashful teacher Ernst Ostertag and the German cabaret artist Robi Rapp get to know one another in the Swiss underground organization called Der Kreis (The Circle). As the two dissimilar men defend their love, they witness the heyday and decline of this Europe-wide pioneering organization for gay emancipation. [Wolfe Rel...

Directed By: Stefan Haupt

Written By: Christian Felix, Ivan Madeo, Urs Frey, Stefan Haupt

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
67
56% Positive
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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56% Positive
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44% Mixed
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80
Dec 17, 2014
A richly absorbing historical docudrama.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
80
Nov 21, 2014
The Circle has a sincerity and an honesty that shames far more expensive but over-polished dramas. Plenty of movies have happy endings; The Circle shows you both the happy ending and the incredibly hard work it took to get there.
By James Rocchi FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 18, 2014
The film refuses to tease us with suspense, overwhelm us with sentimentality, or defy us with nuance.
By Diego Semerene FULL REVIEW
67
Nov 19, 2014
Its fascinations compromised by its clunkiness, the film is a necessary niche history that serves well enough as a primer, placing it just a cut above coasting on good intentions.
By Vadim Rizov FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 8, 2015
The Circle is an undiscovered gem that constantly delights with its unshowy transference of an inherited blood debt that we finally are 'beginning' to honour.
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60
Nov 20, 2014
The sense of an invisible world being revealed is more potent than the film’s fairly standard portrayal of closeted life.
By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW
60
Nov 18, 2014
This is a fascinating and often tumultuous story, which Haupt chronicles through a mixture of interviews with the real Ostertag and Rapp (now married, they appear as a pair) alongside dramatized vignettes that, as the film wears on, feel like annoying interruptions.
By Abby Garnett FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Contrast Film, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF), Ascot Elite Entertainment Group
Release Date Nov 14, 2014
Duration 1 h 42 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline Love ain't a crime.
Website https://www.outplayfilms.com/video/le-cercle/
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Awards

Swiss Film Prize
• 4 Wins & 5 Nominations
Berlin International Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
TLA Gaybies
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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