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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

1975 · 104 min

A slow-burning, suffocating descent into paranoia as public scrutiny and institutional pressure grind a woman down, leaving you tense and morally outraged.

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

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How it feels

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Tone
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • media
  • justice
  • power
  • corruption
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism8
Romance3
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff
Written by
Margarethe von Trotta, Volker Schlöndorff
Starring
Angela Winkler, Mario Adorf, Dieter Laser, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Bennent, Hannelore Hoger, Rolf Becker, Harald Kuhlmann
Music
Hans Werner Henze
Cinematography
Jost Vacano
Runtime
104 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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