Sentences with phrase «circus performer rudy»

You can tell the actors were on their own by Sir Ben Kingsley's ham - fisted Czech circus performer Rudy Omankowsky, who helped train Petit.

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He begins practicing his English — a useful device for allowing the film to drop its subtitles — and picks up wire walking tips from circus performer Papa Rudy; a wonderfully restrained performance by Ben Kingsley.

Petit begins by explaining his antecedents as a little French boy who sneaked into a provincial circus and was awed by the tightrope walker, as a some - time student of a high - wire master known as Papa Rudy and as a street performer in Paris in the 1970s.

Tutored in technique and stagecraft by the Czech circus performer called Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), Petit embarks on his first «surprise illegal high - wire walk» in 1971 at Notre - Dame de Paris, the Manhattan towers still beckoning.