The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

(1975)

★ 7 IMDb · 103 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1975

Runtime: 104 мин

Country: Germany

Director: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe von Trotta

Cast: Angela Winkler, Марио Адорф, Дитер Лазер, Юрген Прохнов, Хайнц Беннент, Hannelore Hoger, Rolf Becker, Harald Kuhlmann, Herbert Fux, Regine Lutz

Plot

After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.

Beautiful young German maid Katharina Blum meets Ludwig and they fall in love immediately and spend the night together. In the morning the police burst into her flat looking for Ludwig: he is a terrorist. But he is no longer there. Katharina is arrested, humiliated, suspected of being a terrorist herself, dragged through the mud by the newspapers. This film is a plea for democracy and individual rights.