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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.
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.
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 ...
Feb 24, 2003 · The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum is anchored by Angela Winkler’s extraordinarily intelligent, Joan of Arc-like performance as Katharina. As eloquent in silence as in speech, she portrays Katharina as a woman of unusually strong convictions who values her right to make her own decisions about her life and, most particularly, about ...
Aug 3, 2020 · Although it is not an exaggeration to claim that Katharina is prosecuted for the crime of being a woman, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum is a feminist film only in the negative—in the way it depicts the impediments to a feminist politics.
Dec 8, 2020 · A 1975 film adaptation of his novel The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum looks how fragile freedom is under democracy.
