The Clown

Name: The Clown
Cast: Helmut Griem, Hanna Schygulla, Eva Maria Meineke, Hans Christian Blech, Jan Niklas

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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.

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Cast & Crew

Director: Vojtěch JasnýProducers: Heinz Angermeyer, Maximilian Schell

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

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