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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Criterion Collection (1975)

Starring: Mario Adorf, Rolf Becker Director: Schlöndorff, Volker Rating: R (Restricted) Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Mario Adorf, Rolf Becker, Heinz Bennent, Werner Eichhorn, Herbert Fux
  • Directors: Schlöndorff, Volker
  • Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: German (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Criterion
  • DVD Release Date: February 25, 2003
  • Run Time: 106 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00007L4I7
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #42,175 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
  • For more information about "The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - Criterion Collection" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Special Features

  • New digital transfer supervised by the cinematographer
  • New and improved subtitle translation
  • New video interview with directors Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe von Trotta
  • New video interview with cinematographer Jost Vacano
  • Excerpts from a 1977 documentary on author Heinrich Boll

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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


Product Description

As the result of a passing contact with someone wanted by the authorities, Katharina's life and dignity are destroyed by those who are supposed to uphold the law.
Genre: Foreign Film - German
Rating: UN
Release Date: 25-FEB-2003
Media Type: DVD

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars don't believe everything you read, April 12, 2001
By Peter Shelley "petershelley" (Marrickville, New South Wales Australia) - See all my reviews
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German director Volker Schlondorff's adaptation of the novel by Heinrich Boll is a terrifying indictment of the perversion of "freedom of the press". Although all Katharina Blum appears to be guilty of is picking up a man from a party, that one night causes her notoriety when it turns out the man is an army deserter and a thief. It is assumed Katharina is suspect by association, and her life is scrutinised by the police and the "gutter" press, every nuance projected with ulterior motive. The police here are as much to blame for Katharina's nightmare, since they feed the press the details of her life and the press subsequently interpret them to present her in the most damaging way. The press' justification for humiliating her is that the public has a right to know, but whose life doesn't feature things to be misconstrued, or aspects that are so private that they cannot be explained? The point that the newspaper publishing articles about her is considered "gutter" doesn't alter the potency of the effect it has. The reactions of the public to Katharina demonstrates our willingness to believe the worst about celebrity, and the vicious food cycle of press and it's readership. Katharina's employer tells her that no one takes the paper seriously but she replies that everyone she knows reads it. The horror of this tale is the way Katharina eventually acts to restore her lost sense of honour, which ironically makes her a tragic figure, her story evidence of the cruelty of fate. Schlondorff undoubedly knows that this material is gothic enough without needing to highten it further with effects, and he presents it simply, with discrete almost inperceptible music. As Katharina, Angela Winkler has the ordinary look of her mousy housemaid, but also the dark eyes of someone with hidden depths.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars a great film with an important message, November 1, 2004
By Ted "Ted" (Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
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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 the re-release was inspired in part by the September 11 attacks and the susequent crackdown on those suspected of helping terrorists.

In the film a woman is accused of harboring a member of a left-wing terrorist group. After her release, she is followed everywhere by a member of a tabloid newspaper and receives obscene hate mail and prank phone calls. The film depicts how every person who comes into contact witht he terrorist is followed by the police and checked out.

The film stirs worries that some have regarding their civil liberties in a post 9/11 America. I find the film to be quite good and is set against actual events in 1970's Germany during an uprising of a German terrorist group known as the RAF (Rote Armee Fraktion or Red Army Faction)

The Criterion Collection release has interviews with the film's two co-directors,Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta. and with director of photography, Jost Vacano.

Thre is also a documentary about author Heinrich Böll and a theatrical trailer for the film.

The film is quite good but is not for everyone.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Important Film To See....., October 9, 2004
As I was watching this movie I couldn't help but be reminded of another story - 'the Trial' by Franz Kafka. Like 'the Trial's' main character, Joseph K, Katherina is a victim to a corrupt bearucratic system based upon ruining someone's life for the sake of others.
Whereas, I did not like 'the Tin Drum', Katherina Blum struck me very deeply - maybe because it is so real and relevent.
Along with this film I would recommend Fassbinder's 'Mother Kusters goes to Heaven' (a similar story about tabloid journalism following a tragedy).
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published on July 5, 2007 by John Farr

5.0 out of 5 stars 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. Read more
Published on January 7, 2007 by David Thomson

4.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published on June 12, 2005 by Quin

5.0 out of 5 stars 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... Read more
Published on December 12, 2004 by Hiram Gomez Pardo

2.0 out of 5 stars Great novel. Horrid adaptation.
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (Volker Schlondorff, 1975)

Schlondorff (The Handmaid's Tale, Homo Faber, Swann in Love, etc. Read more

Published on March 17, 2004 by Robert P. Beveridge

5.0 out of 5 stars 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. Read more
Published on January 3, 2004 by Kim Anehall

5.0 out of 5 stars 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. Read more
Published on May 18, 2003 by Sarah_Aliza

4.0 out of 5 stars BEWARE VIGILANTE PRESS AND POLICE
Although first released in 1975, THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM (Criterion) grows more relevant every day. Read more
Published on April 17, 2003 by Robin Simmons

4.0 out of 5 stars The Power of the Press
This movie stems from a time when German movie making was at its zenith, in the 70s and early 80s. The script of this film is very true to the book of the same title, written by... Read more
Published on February 14, 2001 by Jens Haetty

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