The Clown
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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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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
Dirk Dautzenberg
Herr Silvs
Gustav Rudolf Sellner
Cast member
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