Movie

The Clown

★ 6.1/10 · 8 votes 1976 1h 51m Released

Drama

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.

Cast

Helmut Griem Hans Schnier Hanna Schygulla Marie Eva Maria Meineke The Mother Hans Christian Blech Derkum Jan Niklas Leo, Hans’ Bruder Helga Anders Sabine