The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) ( Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann ) ( The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead )

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann
Alternate Title: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby DTS-HD Master Audio )
German ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
105 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1975 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Volker Schlöndorff
Margarethe von Trotta

Written By:
Heinrich Böll
Volker Schlöndorff

Actors:
Angela Winkler ..... Katharina Blum
Mario Adorf ..... Kommissar Beizmenne
Dieter Laser ..... Werner Tötges
Jürgen Prochnow ..... Ludwig Götten
Heinz Bennent ..... Dr. Hubert Blorna
Hannelore Hoger ..... Trude Blorna
Rolf Becker ..... Staatsanwalt Hach
Harald Kuhlmann ..... Moeding
Herbert Fux ..... Weninger
Regine Lutz ..... Else Woltersheim
Werner Eichhorn ..... Konrad Beiters
Karl Heinz Vosgerau ..... Alois Sträubleder
Angelika Hillebrecht ..... Frau Pletzer
Horatius Häberle ..... Staatsanwalt Dr. Korten
Henry van Lyck ..... 'Scheich' Karl

Synopsis:

When Katharina Blum spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. Suddenly a suspect, Katharina is subject to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist, testing the limits of her dignity and her sanity. Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta's powerful adaptation of Heinrich Böll's novel is a stinging commentary on state power, individual freedom, and media manipulation--as relevant today as on the day of its release in 1975.

Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together. In the morning, the police bursts in her flat, looking for Ludwig: he is a terrorist. But he was no longer here. Katharina is arrested, humiliated, suspected to be a terrorist herself, dragged in the mud by the newspapers... A plea for democracy and individual rights.

The title character is an innocent housekeeper whose life is ruined by an invasive tabloid reporter and a police investigation when the man with whom she has just fallen in love turns out to be a radical bank robber. The film, unlike the novel, ends with a scene at Tötges' funeral, with his publisher delivering a hypocritical condemnation of the murder as an infringement on the freedom of the press.

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