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Originally Posted by Vii
i'm wondering how difficult it would be for jerry lewis to find someone to act as helmut....
he has some really funny passages, but most of the time they are sad! 
i cant imagine who could play a character like him... |
I'm thinking an older man. Washed up, but still agile enough. Someone 60ish. The problem would seem to be that thing early on where his wife is pleading for him with the guards. I think of her as young and beautiful. I guess she could be a 20 year younger (so in her late 30s, perhaps) trapeze artist or something. The way I see it, Helmut has to be someone who has "lost it", no longer believes in himself, may be alcoholic, speaks with heavy accent (if the film is to be done in English), is kind of coarse but still can be touched by the innocence of children. He needs to be a man who, it might be said, represents the inevitability of death as it is, but who finds refreshment in the childlike hope and joy of new life given.