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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead

Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann

1975

Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta

Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow ...

6.6

489

Drama Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together. In the morning, the police bursts in her flat, looking for Ludwig : he is a terrorist. But he was no longer here. Katharina is arrested, humiliated, suspected to be a terrorist herself, dragged in the mud by the newspapers... A plea for democracy and individual rights.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie's character development is sensitive (...) But then the big, important Heinrich Boll message comes marching along (...) [It] doesn't really fit the film as a whole (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"A snapshot of a specific era in German history, this is interesting if not too personally affecting (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"It's very difficult to like even though it has things to admire (...) This may be exactly what the film makers intended to do, but it's not the kind of movie that greatly interests me."	NEG
United Kingdom	Geoff Andrew Time Out	"A disturbingly powerful version of Heinrich Böll's novel (...) Winkler is excellent (...) Sometimes surreal, always intelligent and menacing"	POS
United States	Walter Goodman The New York Times	"The director, does what he can to pump some life into the plot, but it just lies there, as dormant as Katharina's honor."	NEU

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