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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, or: How violence develops and where it can lead (German original title: Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann) is a 1975 German political drama film, based on the 1974 novel of the same name by Heinrich Böll, written for the screen and directed by Volker ...
Oct 10, 1975 · The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum: Directed by Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta. With Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow. A young woman's life is scrutinized by police and tabloid press after she spends the night with a suspected terrorist.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, a 1975 film adaptation of Böll's novel directed by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta and starring Angela Winkler as Blum, Mario Adorf as Kommissar Beizmenne, Dieter Laser as Tötges and Jürgen Prochnow as Ludwig.
West Germany, 1971: At the height of the scare over the terrorism of the Baader-Meinhof gang, a bank was robbed and a guard killed. The next day, without evidence, the nation's largest newspaper blamed the gang for the crimes.
When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum portrays an anxious era in West Germany amid a crumbling postwar political consensus.
Dec 3, 2014 · THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM (1975) On Wednesday, February 2, 1975, the night before Fat Thursday (last Thursday before Lent), a young woman, aged 27, leaves her apartment at around 18.45 o’clock to join a private dance.
Nov 6, 2020 · The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975) is based on a novel by Nobel Prize-winning German writer Heinrich Böll, who wrote it following a harrowing personal experience. After he criticized a lurid West German tabloid for inciting mass hysteria through its coverage of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang, the tabloid labeled Böll a terrorist ...
