剧情介绍
汉斯·施尼尔出生于波恩煤矿大老板家庭,其父亲是个百万富翁。汉斯不能忍受周围虚伪庸俗的环境,在21岁时毅然离家出走,当了一名丑角演员,没有正式结婚就同虔诚的天主教徒玛丽生活在一起,这在教会和世人眼里是非法的、不道德的。后来玛丽离开了他,同一个有钱有势的天主教徒结了婚,使汉斯的心灵受到严重的创伤。6年以后,在他27岁时,他回到波恩,坐在火车站广场上卖唱,沦为乞丐,但是他的抗议歌声却被淹没在狂欢节的欢乐中,这时玛丽也正从罗马度蜜月归来。
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.
受制于影片篇幅,伯尔原著的人物和背景相对简化,适当放大了童年家庭部分的内容,对天主教的抨击力度相应受到减损,但仍不失为不错的改编,色调处理不错,且伯尔本人也参与了编剧。男主角: 赫尔穆特之前出演过维斯康蒂的《路德维希》,担任配角的汉娜·许古拉日后更荣膺柏林和戛纳双影后。