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Gutta-percha Boy () is a 1957 Soviet drama film adaptation of the novel by Russian writer Dmitry Grigorovich.
Petya is an eight-year-old orphan who has been given into training to the German acrobat Karl Becker, who with curses and beatings introduces his new assistant to the circus profession and ruthlessly exploits the child in his performances. The only consolation which brightens the harsh life of the gutta-percha boy, as Petya is referred to on the posters, is the concern of the Circus clown Edwards, who pities the orphan and secretly teaches him the real art of the circus. During one of the performances, Petya, while performing a difficult trick on Becker's demand, falls from a high altitude.
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