Katharina Blum
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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.
- Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Heinrich Böll
- 1974
Katharina Blum is an innocent woman who works as a housekeeper for a famous corporate lawyer, Hubert Blorna, and his wife Trude. She is nicknamed "the Nun " due to her prudish lifestyle which makes her acquaintances very surprised by her suspected involvement with a criminal.
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.
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- Crime, Drama
- Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta
- 1975-10-10
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.
- Katharina Blum
Out of sudden, Werner Tötges claims the Blornas are communists who help Katharina in her criminal activity. When the police find in Katharina’s apartment an expensive diamond ring and a love letter, they try to persuade her to give them a name of a person who gives these gifts to her.
Jan 1, 2001 · The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum. Heinrich Böll, Leila Vennewitz (Translator) 3.68. 16,120 ratings1,071 reviews. In an era in which journalists will stop at nothing to break a big story, Henrich Böll's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum has taken on heightened relevance.
