Juggling in Movies
Three Fat Men (1966)
[Lina Braknyte, Pyotr Artemyev, Aleksey Batalov, Valentin Nikulin]
USSR. Original title: Tri tolstyaka. Soviet fantasy film based on the novel by Yury Olesha. Considered the first "revolutionary tale" of the young USSR, it recounts the adventures of Tibule, a tightrope walker, Dr. Gaspard, a master of a thousand trades, and Prospero, a revolutionary, in their fight against the tyranny of the capricious lords of the Palace of the Three Fat Men, and includes a porcelain doll that comes to life and helps a good cause. There are clowns, tightrope walking, and juggling.
At 02:00, Lina Braknyte, playing Suok, practices
juggling 3 clubs
in a horse-drawn wagon for 35 seconds.
At 18:20, Lina Braknyte
juggles 3 torches,
seen on and off for just over a minute.
