The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum [1975] Schloendorff

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Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann (1975)

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (literal English title)


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The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (German original title: Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann) is a 1975 film adaptation by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta of the novel of the same name by Heinrich Böll. The film stars Angela Winkler as Blum, Mario Adorf as Kommissar Beizmenne, Dieter Laser as Tötges, and Jürgen Prochnow as Ludwig.

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

The novel and film deal with the sensationalism of tabloid news and the political climate of panic over Red Army Faction terrorism in the 1970s Federal Republic of Germany. The main character, Katharina Blum, 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 wanted by the police because of a bank robbery. Later it turns out that he is not a bank robber: he is a deserter from the Army who had stolen money from his camp before deserting. Ultimately she shoots the reporter, after she invited him to her house for an interview. The book's fictional tabloid paper, Die Zeitung (The Newspaper), is modeled on the actual German Bild-Zeitung. The story is written from a third-person perspective.