The Clown

The Clown (1976)

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.

Director: Vojtěch Jasný
Writer: Vojtěch Jasný

Casts

	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 as
	Alexander May as
	Ben Hecker as
	Wolfram Koch as

Crew