The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him.
| Directing | Elia Kazan | Director |
| Production | Robert L. Jacks | Producer |
| Editing | Dorothy Spencer | Editor |
| Directing | Hans Tost | Assistant Director |
| Camera | Georg Krause | Director of Photography |
| Art | Hans Kuhnert | Art Direction |
| Writing | Robert E. Sherwood | Writer |
| Writing | Neil Paterson | Story |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ursula Maes | Costume Design |
| Sound | Franz Waxman | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Theo Zwierski | Art Direction |
| Production | Gerd Oswald | Associate Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Charles LeMaire | Wardrobe Master |
| Sound | Earle Hagen | Orchestrator |
| Costume & Make-Up | Arthur Schramm | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Fritz Seyfried | Makeup Artist |
| Sound | Carl Becker | Sound |
| Sound | Martin Müller | Sound |
| Sound | Roger Heman Sr. | Sound |
