Ansichten eines Clowns 1976

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
Hans Schnier 

Hanna Schygulla
Marie 

Eva Maria Meineke
The Mother 

Hans Christian Blech
Derkum 

Jan Niklas
Leo, Hans’ Bruder 

Helga Anders
Sabine 

• The Clown