Rent The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
3.6 of 5 from 73 ratings
1h 46min
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- Synopsis:
- Katharina Blum (Angela Winkler) - young, attractive, bright, sensitive - falls in love at a carnival party with a young radical lawbreaker in flight from the police. Her brief association with a hunted man brings her under police surveillance and makes her the cruelly exploited subject of cheap newspaper sensationalism. Paraded across the front pages of a big-city daily newspaper, portrayed as a whore, an atheist, a Communist sympathizer, she becomes the target of anonymous phone-calls and letters, sexual advances integrity so profound that it overcomes even her will to survive, she shoots the offending journalist.
- Actors:
- Angela Winkler, Dieter Laser, Mario Adorf, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger, Rolf Becker, Harald Kuhlmann, Herbert Fux, Regine Lutz, Werner Eichhorn, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Angelika Hillebrecht, Horatius Häberle, Henry van Lyck, Leo Weisse, Walter Gontermann, Hildegard Linden, Stephanie Thönnessen, Josephine Gierens
- Directors:
- Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta
- Producers:
- Willi Benninger, Eberhard Junkersdorf, Gunther Witte
- Writers:
- Heinrich Böll, Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta
- Aka:
- Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
- Studio:
- AceFilm
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Countries:
- Germany
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 28/09/2009
- Run Time:
- 106 minutes
- Languages:
- German DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English, French, German, Japanese
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- 'Memories': Interview with directors Volker Schlondorff, Margarethe von Trotta and producer Eberhard Junkersdorf
- 'The delayed Antigone': Segment from German film 'Deutschland im Herbst' directed by Volker Schlondorff with a similar cast to 'Ktaharina Blum'
- Original trailer
- Picture gallery
- BD-live
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Essential Volker - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum review by dl
Wrong place wrong time and the wrong person to get involved with this is Katharina Blum’s story, a scathing look into Police manipulation and the endless character assassination tactics used by the German press.Set in the troubled terrorist years of early 70’s West Germany but still bodes well in todays times of counter terrorism.Performance wise its spot as you get behind Angela Winklers title role, your really not sure whats going on with this girl, the deeper it gets the more it throws at you in terms of subplots ect. With having two directors working on this film it works a treat and pays off surprisingly well one taking charge of the characters and one on the forensics and background procedure it all fits and blends together perfectly,A very Intelligent drama that delivers its message of corruption and manipulation clearly.8/10
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