The Clown

The Clown — Plot

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.

• Release date
• January 14, 1976
• Runtime
• 111 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Vojtěch Jasný

The Clown — 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 Rainer Basedow Zohnerer, Schniers Agent Claudia Butenuth Monika Silvs