Joe the clown travels around France with circus director Bunding and soon marries the director’s daughter Daisy. When she cheats on him, heartbroken Joe leaves the circus. Daisy has a child, is disowned by her father and leaps into the Seine. All that is left for Joe is the hope of a reunion with his former lover’s daughter. Circus films were a speciality of the Nordisk Films Kompagni in its early years, becoming a recognised genre in Danish film, famously represented by A.W. Sandberg’s 1916 film “The Clown”. Sandberg’s remake ten years later surpassed his original. “The Clown” from the year 1926 is an an old-school melodrama about the social and emotional breakdown of a loser – a frequent theme of 1920s cinema. Filmed partly on location in Paris, this big-budget production was clearly aimed at an international market, with stylistic shades of Hollywood and Ufa hits, starring the fabulous Gösta Ekman, who had recently triumphed in F.W. Murnau’s “Faust”.