Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns still live in these countries. He also meets Anita Ekberg trying to buy a panther in a circus.
Riccardo Billi
Gigi Reder
Tino Scotti
Valentini
Fanfulla
Merli
Carlo Rizzo
Alberto Colombaioni
Pistoni
Martana
Giacomo Furia
Dante Maggio
Galliano Sbarra
Peppino Janigro
Carini
Maunsell
Nino Terzo
Osiride Pevarello
Nino Vingelli
Alberto Sorrentino
Fumagalli
Valdemaro
Luigi Zerbinati
Ettore Bevilacqua
Maya Morin
Alvaro Vitali
Anna Lina Alberti
Gasparino
Alex
Georges Loriot
Louis Maïss
Bario
Ludo
Nino
Charlie Rivel
Pierre Étaix
Annie Fratellini
Victor Fratellini
Jean-Baptiste Thiérrée
Tristan Remy
Liana Orfei
Rinaldo Orfei
Nando Orfei
Franco Migliorini
Anita Ekberg
Federico Fellini
Paolo Baroni
Maria Grazia Buccella
Aristide Caporale
Victoria Chaplin
Liliana Chiari
Dante Cleri
Shirley Corrigan
Pasquale Fasciano
Feverello
Gustavo Fratellini
Adelina Poerio
Marie Párová
Richard Simmons
Tonino Tommasi