Juggling in Movies

The Blue Kite (1993)

[Tian Yi, Wenyao Zhang, Xiaoman Chen, Liping Lü Cunxin Pu, Xuejian Li]

Alternate title: Lan feng zheng. A Chinese movie about societal conditions around the time after Stalin died. The lives of a Beijing family throughout the 1950s and 1960s, as they experience the impact of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution.

At 10:42, a Chinese boy plays with a simple wooden one-piece whistling diabolo for 30 seconds while several other children watch excitedly.


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