The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum (film)
- Angela Winkler: Katharina Blum
- Mario Adorf: Commissioner Beizmenne
- Dieter Laser: Werner Totges
- Jürgen Prochnow: Ludwig Gotten
- Heinz Bennents: Dr. Blorna
- Rolf Becker: Attorney Hach
- Harald Kuhlmann: Moeding
- Herbert Fux: Weninger
- Regine Lutz: Else Woltersheim
- Werner Eichhorn: Konrad Beiters
- Karl -Heinz Vosgerau: Straubleder
- Angelika Hillebrecht: Woman Pletzergraben
- Horatius Haeberle: Attorney Dr. Korten
- Henry van Lyck: " Sheikh " Karl
- Leo White: Schönner ( Photographer )
- Walter Gontermann: Father Urbanus
- Hildegard Linden: Hedwig plotting
- Stephanie Thoennessen: Claudia Stern
- Josephine Gierens: Hertha Scheumel
- Peter Franke: Dr. Heinen
- Achim Strietzel: Liiding (Group Mr. )
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum was shot in 1975 by Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta. The film is based on the story by Heinrich Böll.
Action
See The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum.
Difference to the literary source
The film has a different beginning and a different end than Boll's novel. Runs in the book the narrator the reader into the composite from multiple sources act one, the film begins chronologically with the arrival Ludwig Gotten at the place where he will meet later at a party on Katharina Blum. While the book ends with the arrest Katharina Blum, the film is finally to see the funeral of assassinated journalists. A particular irony is that in the ( Heinrich Böll wrote ) grave speech, the chief of the publishing house, which publishes the News, the fact Katharina Blum called " attack on freedom of the press " and they explained that it was necessary to counteract such attacks in the future more. The effect of the Böll manuscript should be enhanced in this way. The film ends with a parody of the usual " Any resemblance to actual persons are purely coincidental and not intentional. ": " Similarities with certain journalistic practices are neither intended nor accidental, but inevitable. " A similar passage is also Heinrich Böll his book ahead.
Background
On the financing of 1.7 million DM expensive film, the WDR and Paramount Orion, each with 500,000 DM involved a loan from the Federal Film Board in the amount of DM 300,000 was later repaid by the box office, the remaining amount of about DM 400,000 contributed to the producer in own contribution at.
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum celebrated 10 October 1975 premiere in nine cinemas in Germany and was first broadcast on ARD on 18 May 1978. Had its U.S. premiere of the film in October 1975 as part of the New York Film Festival, and then ran in selected U.S. cinemas. In 1977 he was shown in 30 cinemas in Moscow and then ran into ( almost) all major cities of the Soviet Union.
The shooting took place in Tyrol in the city of Cologne and in the studios of the WDR, and in Obergurgl in the Ötztal. Among other things, the Uni-Center in Suelz served as the backdrop, example of a huge, anonymous high-rise apartment blocks, that was the turning time just barely two years old. Later, in the " German Autumn" of 1977, this location venue real terrorist activities: As part of the Schleyer kidnapping in Cologne RAF member Adelheid Schulz had rented a safe house in the University Center under a false name.
Reviews
According to the dictionary of the International film refers to the " hand- seasoned film [ ... ] - like Boll's book - on current issues related to the terrorism debate of the 70s: entanglement of government institutions with private economic power; Possibilities of manipulating high-circulation tabloid newspapers in the service of political restoration; Powerlessness of the individual to a mass hysteria fueled the public opinion. The absence of differentiation, the treatise- exemplary simplicity of the plot, the oversubscription of the figures and the polemical style of directing combine to provide a striking staging, the challenges for discussion. "
The auteur pair Schlöndorff and von Trotta prove here as film critic Roger Ebert, the same empathy for female characters as in flash in the pan (A free Woman, 1972). Katharina Blum, played by Angela Winkler with a refined blend of shyness and fire ( " played with a subtle mixture of shyness and fire" ), experiences as a woman in many ways a different treatment than men. The sensitive character development of the film will overshadowed, and human history in the core of Schlöndorff and von Trotta buried by Heinrich Boll's about clear message ( "then the big, important, Heinrich Boll message comes marching along" ). An intelligent, though ultimately unconvincing film ( " an intelligent, if finally unconvincing film" ).
Awards
- Predicate particularly valuable from the Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden
- Price of the CEC ( Spanish film criticism )
- Price of the OCIC (International Catholic film office )
- German Film Award Film Award
- German Critics' Prize 1975 in the category of film
- German Film Award Film Award