The Clown [198084] Released: 1976-01-14 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 111 mins Popularity: 0.6892 Vote Average: 5.7 Vote Count: 5 Overview: 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 [13] Helmut GriemHans Schnier Hanna SchygullaMarie Eva Maria MeinekeThe Mother Hans Christian BlechDerkum Jan NiklasLeo, Hans’ Bru Helga AndersSabine Rainer BasedowZohnerer, Schnie Claudia ButenuthMonika Silvs Dirk DautzenbergHerr Silvs Gustav Rudolf Sellner Alexander May Ben Hecker Wolfram Koch Trailers