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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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Independent Film Heinz Angermeyer, MFG-Film
Original Title
Ansichten eines Clowns
Original Language
German
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Cast
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Helmut Griem
Hans Schnier
H
Hanna Schygulla
Marie
E
Eva Maria Meineke
The Mother
H
Hans Christian Blech
Derkum
J
Jan Niklas
Leo, Hans’ Bruder
H
Helga Anders
Sabine
R
Rainer Basedow
Zohnerer, Schniers Agent
C
Claudia Butenuth
Monika Silvs
D
Dirk Dautzenberg
Herr Silvs
G
Gustav Rudolf Sellner
A
Alexander May
B
Ben Hecker
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Wolfram Koch
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