‘Four Minus Three,’ Premiering at Berlin, Is Based on a True Story of Family, Death, Grief, Hope – and Clowns (Exclusive Clip)

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What awaits you is an emotional journey through family, death, grief, memory, hope, and tears that also features clowns – yes, clowns! The movie stars Valerie Pachner (The Stories, Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden, A Hidden Life). She and her partner Heli (Robert Stadlober) are professional clowns, living an alternative, joy-filled life with their two children. “Can her way of seeing the world — through both its light and shadow — help her find a way back to life? “I first read the synopsis of Four Minus Three at a time when my second child had just been born.