The Circle

Name: The Circle
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Documentary
Released: November 14, 2014
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 67

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Wolfe Releasing | Release Date: November 14, 2014 | Not Rated

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 Releasing]

Director: Stefan Haupt

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Romance, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 102 min

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Gary Goldstein

Dec 17, 2014

A richly absorbing historical docudrama. Read full review

James Rocchi

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. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Nov 21, 2014

Haupt’s film moves along agreeably enough for a while, and the intercutting between the film’s real-life subjects, now at an advanced age, and their dramatized adventures almost 60 years ago, convincingly creates a rooting interest. Read full review

Vadim Rizov

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. Read full review

Abby Garnett

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. Read full review

Empire Ian Freer

Dec 8, 2014

A solid telling that spans several fascinating periods of 20th century life. Read full review

D.W. Mault

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. Read full review

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