The Clown (1976)
Based on the best-selling novel by Nobel-laureate Heinrich Böll, this drama is a passionate indictment of Catholicism. Hans Schnier (Helmut Griem) has earned his living as a clown, though he is in fact a very covert sort of social critic. After enduring a difficult childhood in Bonn during the Second World War, including his mother's fanatic Nazism, he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church.
- Released
- 1976-01-14
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Vojtěch Jasný, Vojtěch Jasný
- TMDB rating
- 6.1/10 from 8 votes
Cast
- Helmut Griem as Hans Schnier
- Hanna Schygulla as Marie
- Eva Maria Meineke as The Mother
- Hans Christian Blech as Derkum
- Jan Niklas as Leo, Hans’ Bruder
- Helga Anders as Sabine
- Rainer Basedow as Zohnerer, Schniers Agent
- Claudia Butenuth as Monika Silvs
- Dirk Dautzenberg as Herr Silvs
- Gustav Rudolf Sellner
- Alexander May
- Ben Hecker