The Clown
Ansichten eines Clowns
Release: 1976-01-14
·Runtime: 111m
·★ 5.7
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.
Production Countries
Germany
Production Companies
Independent Film Heinz Angermeyer
MFG-Film
Cast
Helmut Griem
as Hans Schnier
Hanna Schygulla
as Marie
Jan Niklas
as Leo, Hans’ Bruder
Helga Anders
as Sabine
Wolfram Koch
Eva Maria Meineke
as The Mother
Hans Christian Blech
as Derkum
Rainer Basedow
as Zohnerer, Schniers Agent
Claudia Butenuth
as Monika Silvs
Dirk Dautzenberg
as Herr Silvs
Alexander May
