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| ACTORS: | Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1975 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Home Vision Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Widescreen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - German |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 037429153536 |
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Great novel. Horrid adaptation. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlondorff, 1975)
Schlondorff (The Handmaid's Tale, Homo Faber, Swann in Love, etc.) directs his and Margarthe von Trotta's adaptation of Heinrich Boll's novel, and in the process shows us a treatise on how not to make a crime film.
Katharina Blum (The Tin Drum's Angela Winkler, perhaps the only good thing about the film) suddenly finds herself pursued by the police and tabloid journalists after being linked to a terrorist (Jurgen Prochnow, who has so little screen time he never really gets a chance to act). They think she's in league with him; she claims he was a one-night stand. The movie's tension turns on the basic question of which one of them is telling the correct tale, and how much harassment Katharina is going to take before snapping.
The wonder of Boll's novel is that it takes this premise (which should be familiar to readers of Kafka's The Trial) and turns it on his head; the novel opens with the climax, then takes us back to the preceding events to make us understand how she got there. The film ignores this opening, putting the climax at the end. In order to increase the mystery factor, I guess. Problem is it doesn't. All it does is confuse the picture, so we have little idea one way or the other what's going on through most of the film. (The film is also much clearer about the question of Katharina's innocence/guilt, which takes much of the fun out of it all.)
Winkler is a fine actress, and the one thing that might make this worth watching again; everything else about it is quite pedestrian. **
Love scrutinized by ruthless media...
Lost Honor of Katharina Blum is a contemporary love story about Katharina and Ludwig who fall in love at first sight at a party. After the party Ludwig spends the night with Katharina and when Katharina wakes up in the morning the police barge into the apartment in order to arrest Ludwig who is a wanted terrorist. The police are unsympathetic to Katharina's needs and rights as they discover that Ludwig has evaded the long arm of the police. This becomes the initial step towards a long humiliating suffering for Katharina as the press and media drag her reputation through the gutter. This film is a tribute to democracy as it displays the importance of information distribution and the responsibility that the press and media carry. Lost Honor of Katharina Blum is an intricate story where love drives the plot and engages the audience. However, the simplicity of the story steers the audience toward several subplots and cerebrally engaging notions, morals, and values. This results in a brilliant cinematic experience that will keep the audience mesmerized.
a great film and an excellent dvd
What a transfer! I am really enjoying this DVD, and I highly recommend it. An example of 1970s New German Cinema, that still holds up today. Angela Winkler's silent and steady performance is so good it will rattle your bones!