
The clown Jac's defense speech from Hjalmar Bergman's novel. A monologue about the degrading of being an artist, performed in a circus ring with the camera as the audience.

The clown Jac's defense speech from Hjalmar Bergman's novel. A monologue about the degrading of being an artist, performed in a circus ring with the camera as the audience.
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