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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
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
Alexander MayCastExplore the crew
- Director
- Vojtěch Jasný
- Screenplay
- Vojtěch Jasný
- Director of Photography
- Walter Lassally
- Editor
- Dagmar Hirtz
- Producer
- Maximilian Schell
- Producer
- Heinz Angermeyer