| Ansichten eines Clowns | |
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| Directed by | Vojtěch Jasný |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | Heinz Angermeyer |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Walter Lassally |
| Edited by | Dagmar Hirtz |
| Music by | Eberhard Schoener |
Production company | Heinz Angermeyer GmbH |
| Distributed by | Constantin Film |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | German |
The Clown (German:Ansichten eines Clowns) is a 1976West German film directed byVojtěch Jasný. It is based on the 1963 novel of thesame name byNobel Prize winnerHeinrich Böll. It was chosen as West Germany'sofficial submission to the49th Academy Awards forBest Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination.[1]
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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