The Clown

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.

• Vojtěch JasnýDirector
• Vojtěch JasnýScreenplay

• Helmut GriemHans Schnier
• Hanna SchygullaMarie
• Eva Maria MeinekeThe Mother
• Hans Christian BlechDerkum
• Jan NiklasLeo, Hans’ Bruder
• Helga AndersSabine
• Rainer BasedowZohnerer, Schniers Agent
• Claudia ButenuthMonika Silvs
• Dirk DautzenbergHerr Silvs
• Gustav Rudolf SellnerCast
• Alexander MayCast
• Ben HeckerCast