The Clown
movie
Released January 14, 1976
Genres:
Overview
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
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
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Gustav Rudolf Sellner
Alexander May
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Ben Hecker
