Germany
1975
106 minutes
Color
1.77:1
German
177
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.
| Katarina Blum | Angela Winkler |
| Kommissar Beizmenne | Mario Adorf |
| Werner Tötges | Dieter Laser |
| Ludwig Götten | Jürgen Prochnow |
| Dr. Blorna | Heinz Bennent |
| Director | Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta |
| From the novel by | Heinrich Böll |
| Screenplay | Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta |
| Music | Hans Werner Henze |
| Cinematography | Jost Vacano |
| Editing | Peter Przygodda |
| Production Design | Ute Burgmann and Günther Naumann |
Here’s a quick birthday shout-out to Academy Award–winning, New German Cinema trailblazing Volker Schlöndorff, who turns seventy today. The tireless Schlöndorff is reportedly celebrating in (his) style: he’s currently on a reading tour through Germany, promoting his new autobiography, Light . . .
Few political films transcend their historic moment. Yet watching Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta’s The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum today is an uncanny experience. There is little difference between this depiction of West Germany in 1975, when the anxiety about terrorism . . .
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