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5 May 1953 (USA) morePlot:
Hans Muller is a Jewish refugee from Germany. Relocating to Israel after World War II, he can not overcome the psychological effects of the war... more | full synopsisAwards:
1 win moreUser Comments:
The juggler and the juggled moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Kirk Douglas | ... | Hans Muller | |
| Milly Vitale | ... | Ya'El | |
| Paul Stewart | ... | Detective Karni | |
| Joseph Walsh | ... | Yehoshua Bresler (as Joey Walsh) | |
| Alf Kjellin | ... | Daniel | |
| Beverly Washburn | ... | Susy | |
| Charles Lane | ... | Rosenberg | |
| John Banner | ... | Emile Halevy | |
| Richard Benedict | ... | Police Officer Kogan | |
| Oskar Karlweis | ... | Willy Schmidt | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Ralph Moody | ... | Mukhtar (scenes deleted) | |
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West Germany:12 (f) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Finland:K-16 | USA:Approved (PCA #16277) | Sweden:15Fun Stuff
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One of Kirk Douglas' more intense performances,it is a pity that this movie should remain a buried treasure.
"Surviving the horror" could be another title for "the juggler" .A Jew ,who has lost all his family and who has known the concentration camps comes back to the promised land in 1949.Life during WW2 camps has often been described,but life AFTER the nightmare is a subject which has rarely been told in movies with a few exceptions ("die Morder sind unter uns ":Susanne's character and "Exodus": the young man played by Sal Mineo).But never as successfully as here.
Hans cannot forget.His psyche is shot."I'm the juggler and the juggled" . He tries to find back his dear departed although he knows they were killed.He suffers from claustrophobia and Douglas makes us FEEL his disease (the film owes a great deal to this extraordinary actor),and every time he sees men in uniform ,he thinks of his torturers.
Admirable sequences: Douglas in the desert town ,with all these walls which imprison him ,and those men around who are threats .The minefield where the distraught man and his young pal are rescued by their fellow men who form a human chain.
In his absorbing memoirs,Douglas wrote that he once helped Dmytryk who was one of the Unfriendly Tens .But when they made "the juggler" ,the director acted as if they had never met.Douglas thought he was ashamed for having been an informer.But he did not judge him at all.What would I have done if I had been in his shoes ? he wrote.
Many films might suggest that Dmytryk was suffering from of a strong guilty feeling: "the sniper" with his burned arm,José Ferrer's arm in a sling in "Caine Mutiny" .And in this film ,Douglas "gagging" his arm-mouth ,or covering it to hide his tattooed number.
I agree with all the precedent users.A film which must be restored to favor.