Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent, Karl Heinz Vosgerau. Wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio). Based on Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum von Heinrich Böll. Originally produced in 1975. 4K digital restoration. Special features: interview from 2002 with directors ; interview from 2002 with director of photographer Jost Vacano; excerpts from a 1977 documentary on author Heinrich Boll; trailer; booklet contains an essay by film critic Amy Taubin.
Summary:
Set in 1975. When a young woman spends the night with an alleged terrorist, her quiet, ordered life falls into ruins. The film shows an anxious era in West Germany amid a crumbling postwar political consensus. Katharina, though innocent, suddenly becomes a suspect, falling prey to a vicious smear campaign by the police and a ruthless tabloid journalist that tests the limits of her dignity and her sanity.
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