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In 1972 the “King of Comedy” Jerry Lewis was at the peak of his career. Driven by the ambition to play a dramatic role, he set out to craft a very special movie project, THE DAY THE CLOWN CRIED. It turned out to be an epic fiasco, becoming an elusive ghost of a film with Lewis leaving the set and never speaking about what happened. The movie was never completed and has become the ultimate Hollywood myth. Now, after years of research, extensive materials have been found and restored. This documentary tells the story as daring as the original project itself, with Lewis playing a German clown in a concentration camp long before any other director had narrated a fiction Holocaust film on the big screen. Featuring exclusive interviews with cast and crew members, as well as Jerry Lewis himself, From Darkness to Light uncovers the story of one of the most ambitious US-European co-production projects of its time.
Supported by the Goethe-Institut Israel
