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The Day the Clown Cried is an unfinished and unreleased 1972 Swedish-French drama film directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. [1] It is based on an original screenplay by Joan O'Brien and Charles Denton, from a story idea by O'Brien, with additional material from Lewis. [2]
The Day the Clown Cried: Directed by Jerry Lewis. With Jerry Lewis, Peter Ahlm, Lars Amble, Harriet Andersson. A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths.
Jun 13, 2021 · Reconstruction of Jerry Lewis' The day the clown cried based on footage found on the internet.
Jan 5, 2024 · Comedian Jerry Lewis’s controversial holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried, shot in 1972 but never released due to myriad issues with the production, has never been made available in any form, leading the project to reach mythical status in the global film community.
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of...
Dec 28, 2018 · In 1972, Lewis, best known at the time for mainstream comedies like “The Nutty Professor,” traveled to Paris and Stockholm to make a different kind of movie: a Holocaust drama called “The Day the...
A circus clown is imprisoned by the Nazis and goes with Jewish children to their deaths. Helmut Doork, a once great and famous clown, is fired from the circus. Getting drunk at a local bar, he pokes fun at Hitler in front of some Gestapo agents, who arrest and send him to a prison camp.
Dec 22, 2021 · The film is "The Day the Clown Cried," the story of Helmut Doork, a third-rate German clown who finds himself in Auschwitz, where he is given the task of leading Jewish...
Jul 10, 2016 · The Day the Clown Cried is, in effect, a film-dream – or, more precisely, a film-nightmare. It relates the story of a German clown, Helmut Doork, played by Jerry Lewis, who accompanies Jewish children to the gas chamber at Auschwitz.
Jul 24, 2017 · Barnaby Falck explains the fascinating and complex story behind Jerry Lewis' 1972 lost film: The Day the Clown Cried.
