The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)

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100 min - Drama - 10 October 1975 (West Germany)

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Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together... See full summary »

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Angela Winkler	...	Katharina Blum
	Mario Adorf	...	Kommissar Beizmenne
	Dieter Laser	...	Werner Tötges
	Jürgen Prochnow	...	Ludwig Götten
	Heinz Bennent	...	Dr. Hubert Blorna
	Hannelore Hoger	...	Trude Blorna
	Rolf Becker	...	Staatsanwalt Hach
	Harald Kuhlmann	...	Moeding
	Herbert Fux	...	Weninger
	Regine Lutz	...	Else Woltersheim
	Werner Eichhorn	...	Konrad Beiters
	Karl Heinz Vosgerau	...	Alois Sträubleder
	Angelika Hillebrecht	...	Frau Pletzer
	Horatius Häberle	...	Staatsanwalt Dr. Korten
	Henry van Lyck	...	'Scheich' Karl

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Storyline

Katharina Blum is a young handsome German maid. She meets Ludwig, and they fall in love at once. They spend the night together. In the morning, the police bursts in her flat, looking for Ludwig : he is a terrorist. But he was no longer here. Katharina is arrested, humiliated, suspected to be a terrorist herself, dragged in the mud by the newspapers... A plea for democracy and individual rights. Written by Yepok

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Drama

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Country:

West Germany

Language:

German

Release Date:

10 October 1975 (West Germany) See more »

Also Known As:

Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum See more »

Filming Locations:

Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany See more »

Box Office

Gross:

SEK 1,513,433 (Sweden)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bioskop Film, Paramount-Orion Filmproduktion, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) See more »

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

France: 100 min | Germany: 106 min | USA: 106 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.75 : 1

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Goofs

Continuity: Katharina's car has two different license plates. See more »

Crazy Credits

The legal disclaimer reads as follows:
'Personen und Handlung sind frei erfunden. Sollten sich bei der Schilderung
gewisser journalistischer Praktiken Aehnlichkeiten mit den Praktiken der
BILD-Zeitung ergeben haben, so sind diese Aehnlichkeiten weder beabsichtigt
noch zufaellig, sondern unvermeidlich.'
(Characters and plot are purely fictitious. Similarities with
journalistic practices of the newspaper "BILD" are neither intended nor
coincidental, but inevitable.) See more »

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Referenced in Romy (2009) See more »

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum oder: Wie Gewalt entstehen und wohin sie führen kann (original title)

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