Views of a Clown

IMDb link: 0072650
IMDb rating: 6.7 (167 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Director: Vojtech Jasny
Cast: Helmut Griem, Hanna Schygulla, Hans Christian Blech, Eva Maria Meineke and others

Release date: 14 Jan 1976
Release year: 1976
Runtime: 111 minutes
Country: West Germany
Keywords: mother son relationship, catholicism, death of sister, clown, bonn germany, childhood, roman catholic church, existentialist, nazi fanaticism, nazism

Plot:

Hans Schnier 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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