The Clown

Based on the bestselling novel by Nobellaureate 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 mothers fanatic Nazism he is appalled to discover many of the people he knows and loves swept deeply into involvement in the Catholic Church