How Footage From Jerry Lewis’ Dark Comedy About a Concentration Camp Came to Be Seen for First Time
variety.comRafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor For over half a century, the tale of a missing movie has puzzled Hollywood: what happened to Jerry Lewis’ infamous dark comedy “The Day the Clown Cried”?
Shot in Sweden in 1972, the film told the tale of a clown taken to a concentration camp and tasked with walking children to gas chambers.
Controversy in front and behind the cameras meant the film was never released, with only a handful of people having seen snippets of the footage.
Until now. Eric Friedler’s and Michael Lurie’s documentary “From Darkness to Light,” world premiering at the Venice Film Festival, shares sections of the 1972 film with audiences for the first time while chronicling the making and the downfall of the famed film. “Everyone interested in film somehow heard about this story.
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