Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum)
1975
***
Director: Volker Schlöndorff, Margarethe Von Trotta
Cast: Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow
Katharina Blum, a young innocent woman, spends a night with a suspected radical. In the morning she is arrested and interrogated, and her life becomes tabloid fodder. This adaptation of Heinrich Böll's novel is a scathing but heavy-handed commentary on political hysteria and media manipulation. The novel and the film came out when RAF was terrorising Germany, but the story has relevance today,
