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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780023697
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780023692
Label: Homevision
Manufacturer: Homevision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Homevision
Release Date: September 05, 2000
Running Time: 106 minutes
Sales Rank: 47970
Studio: Homevision
Theatrical Release Date: 1975
Editorial Review:
Description:
Academy Award(tm)-winning director Volker Schlöndorff (The Tin Drum) exposes the hidden terror of the yellow press in this unforgettable adaptation of Heinrich Böll's Nobel Prize-winning novel. Katharina Blum is a shy housekeeper who has a spontaneous one-night stand with an enigmatic young man she's met at a party. The next morning the police raid her apartment and arrest them both for terrorism. Brutally interrogated and wrongfully accused, how far will she go to reclaim her life.
Amazon.com:
A striking examination of the power of the police and excesses of the media, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum grows more pertinent every day. When the police burst into Katharina Blum's apartment, they fail to find the suspected terrorist they've been tracking and arrest Blum for harboring a fugitive. Immediately she becomes a media sensation; between the ruthless interrogation of the police, the even more invasive muckraking of a notorious tabloid, and harassment from the sensation-hungry public, Blum's ordinary life is turned inside out until she has to lash out to defend her own sanity. A German film made in 1975, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum could have been made today in the U.S. Angela Winkler gives a compelling performance as Katharina, but the entire movie is superbly realized: suspenseful, compassionate, and shot through with dark humor. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
Tense, taut suspenser presents an object lesson on the nature of presumed guilt, and the corrosive power of the media, working with a police force desperate for "results', to virtually destroy the life of an innocent person. Directors Schlondorff and Von Trotta unfold this waking nightmare with a tense realism that's unnerving. Winkler makes a most sympathetic victim, while the craggy, enigmatic Prochnow is tailor-made for his shadowy part. In all, a disturbing and thought-provoking entry, expertly ... Read More
Rating: - Katharina Blum is not an Innocent Victim
This is a very fine movie regarding a young and confused woman who is hiding a terrorist. Katharina Blum (Angela Winkler) is breaking the law. She is definitely not an innocent victim. The police are totally justified in pushing the envelope to protect the general public. Ludwig (Jürgen Prochnow) may be warm and gentle towards Katharina---but he is still a dedicated anarchist who endangers the lives of innocent people. If anything, "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum" highlights the struggle of ... Read More
Rating:  - Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann
Good movie based on the novel by Heinrich Böll. Katharina Blum (Angela Winkler) is interrogated by Kommissar Beizmenne (Mario Adorf) because she has just spent the night with Ludwig, a terrorist. The police are brutes, but we're never really sure what Katharina knows or doesn't know, and I thought the moral ambiguity on this point increased the overall credibility of the film. The best part about it was pretty unambiguous, though - pretty damning indictment of the press, here characterized by an incredibly ... Read More
Rating: - Breathtaking movie !
This is one the most appreciated gems in the german cinema of the middle seventies.
The bitter and unstopable process of decay in Katherine Blum is described with vivid expression , overwhelmong camera work and superb script .
You will watch a depressive movie and a mature picture . Tasefully made but without any drop of oversimplifications and
ornaments . The film is incisive and direct . It plays hard with the sensibility of the viewer . So beware with this movie .
Extraordinary film ... Read More
Rating: - a great film with an important message
This review is for the Criterion Collection DVD edition of the film.
The Lost Honor of Katherina Blum, originally released in East Germany as "Die Verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann" which translates to: "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead" is an excellent film regarding the treatment of persosn suspected of consorting with terrorists. It is based on a book by Heinrich Böll.
I would assume ... Read More
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