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Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum

1975 TBC 12

Overall rating: 3 out of 5
from 124 members

Based on the novel by Heinrich Boll - which was itself based on the treatment he received from a German tabloid, after he wrote an article about the urban terrorists operative in Germany in the early Seventies and their brutal treatment at the hands of the government. Katharina Blum meets a young man at a party and spends one night with him, only to awake, find him gone and herself in the middle of a nightmare. It transpires that the man was an alleged terrorist under surveillance and Katharina is herself arrested and subjected to an hysterical smear campaign by the tabloid press. Co-written and co-directed by Schlondorff's wife, herself a successful film director, this powerful statement on modern terrorism and police methods is widely regarded as one of Schlondorff's most superior films.

Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum details

Formats:	TBC DVD, 12 Blu-ray
Starring:	Angela Winkler, Dieter Laser, Dieter Laser, Heinz Bennent, Jurgen Prochnow, Mario Adorf, Hannelore Hoger, Harald Kuhlmann
Directors:	Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlondorff
Genres:	Drama, World Cinema - Danish

Name	Discs
Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum	TBC Feature

DVD Information

Rental release:	Not available in UK
Main languages:	German

Name	Discs
Lost Honor Of Katharina Blum	12 Feature

Blu-ray Information

Run time:	1 hour 46 minutes
Rental release:	28 Sep 2009
Main languages:	German
Subtitles:	English

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Well acted and intense

By meltedwalkman (2 reviews) from Nottingham , 23 Jul 2009

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This is seen to be the first von Trotta film in a relatively large collection that features the subject of terrorism and women. Schlondorff also returned to make another film in reunified Germany on the topic. Both filmmakers belonged to the 1970s movement of the New German Cinema, which commented on political issues at the time.

I feel it is well acted, though the music is not particularly well done. Angela Winkler performs the main role well; a women who is labelled a terrorist, manipulated by the right-wing press and ultimately becomes a murderer because of the society around her. A real critique of West German media and sucessfully portrays an uncomfortable situation during a period of political upheaval.
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Very poor blu ray quality

By bigdeke (7 reviews) from London , 06 Jan 2010

As with other titles in the Studio Canal first release of blu rays this is very disappointing. No effort has been made to upgrade the dvd quality - in fact to me this looks like a straight copy of the dvd to blu ray. Bad marks to Studio Canal for a very poor set of blu ray discs.
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Well acted and intense

By meltedwalkman (2 reviews) from Nottingham , 23 Jul 2009

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This is seen to be the first von Trotta film in a relatively large collection that features the subject of terrorism and women. Schlondorff also returned to make another film in reunified Germany on the topic. Both filmmakers belonged to the 1970s movement of the New German Cinema, which commented on political issues at the time.

I feel it is well acted, though the music is not particularly well done. Angela Winkler performs the main role well; a women who is labelled a terrorist, manipulated by the right-wing press and ultimately becomes a murderer because of the society around her. A real critique of West German media and sucessfully portrays an uncomfortable situation during a period of political upheaval.
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