Cinematography:
Jost VacanoComposer:
Hans Werner HenzeCast:
Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent, Rolf Becker, Herbert Fux, Karl Heinz Vosgerau, Margarethe von Trotta, Peter Franke (more)Plots(1)
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, though apparently 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. Crafting one of the most accessible and direct works of 1970s political filmmaking, Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta deliver a powerful adaptation of Heinrich Böll’s novel, a stinging commentary on state power, individual freedom, and media manipulation that is as relevant today as when it was released. (Criterion)
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Angela Winkler
German Empire
Best movies:
Hunting Scenes from Bavaria (1969)
The Tin Drum (1979)
Danton (1983)
Mario Adorf
Switzerland
Best movies:
Winnetou (1963)
The Devil Strikes at Night (1957)
Marco Polo (1982) (series)
Dieter Laser
German Empire
Best movies:
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
November (2017)
The Ogre (1996)
Jürgen Prochnow
German Empire
Best movies:
The Boat (1981)
Padre Pio: Miracle Man (2000) (TV movie)
Remember (2015)
Heinz Bennent
German Empire
Best movies:
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980) (TV movie)
Die Wildente (1976)
Sisters, or The Balance of Happiness (1979)
Rolf Becker
German Empire
Best movies:
Gloomy Sunday (1999)
Cardillac (1969)
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
Herbert Fux
Austria
Best movies:
View from the Loft (1974)
Julia, Du bist zauberhaft (1962)
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
Karl Heinz Vosgerau
German Empire
Best movies:
World on a Wire (1973) (TV movie)
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
Die wilden Fünfziger (1983)
Margarethe von Trotta
German Empire
Best movies:
Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (1970)
Sudden Wealth of the Poor People of Kombach (1971) (TV movie)
Coup de grâce (1976)
Peter Franke
German Empire
Best movies:
Herzlich willkommen (1990)
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
Gigantics (1999)
Henry van Lyck
German Empire
Best movies:
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Coup de grâce (1976)
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
Walter Gontermann
German Empire
Best movies:
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
Nichts mehr wie vorher (2013) (TV movie)
The Child I Never Was (2002)
Werner Eichhorn
Estonia
Best movies:
Der Zauberberg (1982)
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
Death Is My Trade (1977)
Achim Strietzel
German Empire
Best movies:
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
The Hunchback of Soho (1966)
Das Traumschiff (1981) (series)
Regine Lutz
Switzerland
Best movies:
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
Tatort (1970) (series)
The Secret of the Wolf's Gorge (2008) (TV movie)
Hildegard Linden
Best movies:
Harald Kuhlmann
Best movies:
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (1975)
Der Schneider von Ulm (1978)