The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlondorff
Cast: Angela Winkler
Angela Winkler
, Mario Adorf
Mario Adorf
Volker Schlöndorff
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

Director: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlondorff
Cast: Angela Winkler
Angela Winkler
, Mario Adorf
Mario Adorf
Volker Schlöndorff

Blu-ray (Color)

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Overview

"Average German citizen Katharina Blum (Angela Winkler) spends the night with a man she barely knows. The next morning, Katharina finds the man gone--and finds herself surrounded by none-too-polite police investigators. It seems that her stranger of the evening was a political activist who has long been the object of close scrutiny by the law. Her basic civil rights ignored at every turn, Katharina is relentlessly grilled about her relationship with her one-night stand. As a result, Katharina loses her job, her friends, and her standing in the community. Unsatisfied with this, the police go after Katharina's family, putting her ailing mother through an emotional wringer. After being branded a Communist by the insensitive press, Katharina goes over the top and shoots a reporter: at last, she has truly become what the media has made of her. Based on a novel by Heinrich Böll and directed with clinical near-detachment by Volker Scholendorff and Margarethe von Trotta, The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum was later remade for American TV as The Lost Honor of Katherine Beck, with Marlo Thomas in the title role."

Product Details

Release Date: 08/04/2020
UPC: 0715515249812
Original Release: 1975
Rating: R
Source: Criterion Collection
Region Code: A
Language: English
Time: 1:46:00
Sales rank: 16,532

Special Features

New 4k digital restoration, approved by Co-Director Volker Schlondorff and Producer Eberhard Junkersdorf, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; Interview from 2002 with Co-Directors Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta; Interview from 2002 with Director of Photography Jost Vacano; Excerpts from a 1977 documentary on author Heinrich Boll; Trailer; Plus: An essay by film critic Amy Taubin

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Angela Winkler Katharina Blum
Mario Adorf Kommissar Beizmenne
Dieter Laser Werner Tötges
Jürgen Prochnow Ludwig Götten
Heinz Bennent Dr. Hubert Blorna
Hannelore Hoger Trude Blorna
Rolf Becker Prosecutor Hach
Harald Kuhlmann Moeding
Herbert Fux Weninger
Regine Lutz Else Woltersheim
Karl Heinz Vosgerau Alois Sträubleder
Horatius Häberle Prosecutor Dr. Korten(as Horatius Haeberle)
Henry van Lyck 'Scheich' Karl
Péter Franke Actor
Walter Gontermann Actor

Technical Credits
Volker Schlöndorff Director,Screenwriter
Margarethe von Trotta Director
Eberhard Junkersdorf Producer
Gunther Witte Producer
Volker Schlondorff Director
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